BOUNDS
Dictionary entry overview: What does bounds mean?
• BOUNDS (noun)
The noun BOUNDS has 1 sense:
1. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Familiarity information: BOUNDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BOUNDS (noun)
Meaning:
The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
boundary; bounds; bound
Hypernyms ("bounds" is a kind of...):
extremity (the outermost or farthest region or point)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bounds"):
hairline (the natural margin formed by hair on the head)
surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)
lineation; outline (the line that appears to bound an object)
demarcation; demarcation line; limit (the boundary of a specific area)
end (a boundary marking the extremities of something)
border; edge (the boundary of a surface)
city line (the boundary of a city)
county line (the boundary between two counties)
district line (the boundary between two districts)
bourn; bourne (an archaic term for a boundary)
border; borderline; boundary line; delimitation; mete (a line that indicates a boundary)
heliopause (the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind and the wind from other stars meet)
frontier (an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary)
shoreline (a boundary line between land and water)
Instance hyponyms:
Rubicon (the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war)
Moho; Mohorovicic discontinuity (the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle)
