clear boundary

collocation in English

meaningsofclearandboundary

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clear
adjective
uk
/klɪər/
us
/klɪr/
easy to understand, hear, read, ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofclearandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Reconstructive procedures, however, lie along a continuum, without anyclearboundarybetween therapeutic reconstructive surgery for a diagnosable problem and purely cosmetic surgery.
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There can, then, be noclearboundarybetween those who make statements from within the discipline and those who make them from without.
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Since both types of firms are driven by profit maximization motives, there is noclearboundarybetween the two.
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Yet it would be naive to expect aclearboundarybetween taxon and nontaxon group members for specific indicators of behavioral reactivity or fear.
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This characterization creates aclearboundarybetween the mathematical and the nonmathematical.
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Thus, we cannot draw anyclearboundarybetween perception and causal thinking in style recognition.
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But yes, it does require that someclearboundaryconditions are set beforehand.
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Yet even this forms noclearboundaryand the categories have remained to a certain extent arbitrary - a matter of historical or juridical accident or of individual choice.
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In chaotic motion, however, there is noclearboundaryin frequency space that distinguishes a low-frequency behavior from high-frequency behavior, because of the continuous nature of the spectrum.
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Right round the area there is aclearboundary, much of which has been created by and is maintained at public expense.
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There is no absolutelyclearboundarybetween personal and corporate borrowing.
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There is aclearboundaryin regard to this area.
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Since there is noclearboundarybetween remedial teaching and other teaching, the expenditure could not be distinguished.
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There has to be aclearboundarybetween the private and public sectors.
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In terms of new technology, there is no longer aclearboundarybetween local and centrally provided systems.
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Secondly, and more important, there is noclearboundarybetween books, pamphlets, magazines, manuscripts, photographs and museum objects.
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However, except for that one road, there is aclearboundarybetween these two districts.
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The degree of individual responsibility varies equally widely; noclearboundarycan be drawn between responsibility and irresponsibility.
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