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say it: BOWN-dur-ee
boundary is a noun meaning "the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
a line determining the limits of an area
the greatest possible degree of something
“what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior”
“to the limit of his ability”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boundary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.