Bounds

Bounds

(1) The external or limiting lines of any object or space. For example, in to set bounds, as of a property. (2) That which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained. Terms of similar meaning are limits, confines and boundaries.

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Industry/Domain: Earth science
Category: Mapping science
Company: American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
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Earth science; Mapping science

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Philosophy; General philosophy

To limit the scope of a variable, usually by enclosing that scope in some variable binding construction which identifies the variable thus bound.

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when a ball is within the boundaries of the field, having not completely crossed a sideline or goal line.

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subtropical

Earth science; Mapping science

Relating to the warmest region of the Temperate Zones that border on the Torrid Zone.

sky

Earth science; Mapping science

The region above and beyond the Earth, as it is seen looking up from the ground. Sky looks blue during the day and dark at night.

South Pole

Earth science; Mapping science

The most southern point of the Earth. The South Pole is the southern end of the axis on which the Earth rotates.

prime meridian

Earth science; Mapping science

The line of longitude that passes through the town of Greenwich, England, and that measures 0 degree. It is the line from which other longitude lines are measured.

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area of error

Earth science; Mapping science

A figure within which the true location of a point whose location has been determined by measurement is believed to lie, with stated degree of probability.

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