delimitado

Delimitado is a Spanish adjective meaning that something has been defined or marked by boundaries. It is used in multiple domains to indicate that limits are known and fixed.

In geometry, geography and urban planning, a region, area or object may be described as delimitado when its borders are clearly defined and recognizable. It can refer to legal boundaries, administrative zones, or physical perimeters, and it often implies a sense of containment or demarcation.

In computing and data processing, datos delimitados are those whose fields are separated by a delimiter character, such as a comma, semicolon, tab, or pipe. The most common example is the CSV format, where the comma serves as the delimiter. When data fields can contain the delimiter character, escaping or quoting rules are typically used. Delimiters and the choice of one are important for parsing reliability and portability.

In programming and natural language processing, the concept of delimitation extends to tokenization, where text is divided into units by delimiters or boundaries, such as spaces or punctuation. In mathematics, an interval can be described as delimitado, especially when its endpoints are specified (open or closed intervals).

Delimitado thus has broad applicability across disciplines, always signaling that a boundary or separation has been defined. The related noun is delimitador, the delimiter that marks the boundary.