boundary term
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'Sustainability' is a boundary term, signifying complex interactions between science, politics, policy making and development (Scoones, 2010: 153-4)."
- "'Poor white trash' is likely the most enduring and degrading in a long line of 'stigmatypes'– 'stigmatizing boundary terms that simultaneously denote and enact cultural and cognitive divides between ingroups and outgroups' –such as 'redneck,' 'cracker,' and 'hillbilly.'"
- "A term which could be seen as a high boundary term ('the enemy' as opposed to 'the friend') is used, but Paul tells them, as it were, to dismantle such a boundary from the inside, by undertaking acts of love and compassion."
- "If M is truncated to have toral boundary, there will be a boundary term after the integration by parts step."
- "Thus the boundary term ambiguity is under physical control: Each distinct choice of the quasi-local expression given by the Hamiltonian boundary term is associated with a physically distinct boundary condition."