Confines meaning

kŏn'fīnz'
The limits of a space or area; the borders.

Within the confines of one county.

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Restraining elements.

Wanted to escape the confines of corporate politics.

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Purview; scope.

A theory that is well within the confines of science.

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Origin of confines

  • Old French confins boundaries from Latin cōnfīnia pl. of cōnfīnium boundary from cōnfīnis adjoining com- com- fīnis border
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Confines Sentence Examples

  • He didn't remove his mask and hood, even within the confines of his home.

  • It Implies A Year Differing In Excess From The True Year Only By 19.45 Sec., While The Gregorian Year Is Too Long By 26 Sec. It Produces A Much Nearer Coincidence Between The Civil And Solar Years Than The Gregorian Method; And, By Reason Of Its Shortness Of Period, Confines The Evagations Of The Mean Equinox From The True Within Much Narrower Limits.

  • When "human testing" is done almost immediately, but within the safe confines of a CPU.

  • More gunfire deafened her in the small confines of the garage, and men screamed and fell.

  • Abisares) between the same two rivers higher up, on the confines of Kashmir (Stein, Rajatarangini, transl.

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