Boundary or Boundaries may refer to: *

Border Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political bo ...

, in political geography

Entertainment

* ''Boundaries'' (2016 film), a 2016 Canadian film * ''Boundaries'' (2018 film), a 2018 American-Canadian road trip film *

Boundary (cricket) In cricket, the boundary is the perimeter of a playing field. It is also the term given to a scoring shot where the ball is hit to, or beyond, that perimeter, which generally earns four or six runs for the batting team. Edge of the field The ...

, the edge of the playing field, or a scoring shot where the ball is hit to or beyond that point * Boundary (sports), the sidelines of a field

Mathematics and physics

Boundary (topology) In topology and mathematics in general, the boundary of a subset of a topological space is the set of points in the closure of not belonging to the interior of . An element of the boundary of is called a boundary point of . The term boun ...

, the closure minus the interior of a subset of a topological space; an edge in the topology of manifolds, as in the case of a 'manifold with boundary' * Boundary (graph theory), the vertices of edges between a subgraph and the rest of a graph * Boundary (chain complex), its abstractization in chain complexes *

Boundary value problem In mathematics, in the field of differential equations, a boundary value problem is a differential equation together with a set of additional constraints, called the boundary conditions. A solution to a boundary value problem is a solution to ...

, a differential equation together with a set of additional restraints called the boundary conditions * Boundary (thermodynamics), the edge of a thermodynamic system across which heat, mass, or work can flow

Psychology and sociology

Personal boundaries Personal boundaries or the act of'' setting boundaries'' is a life skill that has been popularized by self help authors and support groups since the mid 1980s. It is the practice of openly communicating and asserting personal values as way to pre ...

, a life skill for protecting against having personal values compromised or violated *

Boundaries of the mind Boundaries of the mind refers to a personality trait concerning the degree of separateness ("thickness") or connection ("thinness") between mental functions and processes. Thin boundaries are associated with open-mindedness, sensitivity, vulnerab ...

, the degree of separateness between fantasy and reality * Professional boundaries, relationship between any professional and their client *

Symbolic boundaries Symbolic boundaries are a theory of how people form social groups proposed by cultural sociologists. Symbolic boundaries are “conceptual distinctions made by social actors…that separate people into groups and generate feelings of similarity a ...

, a theory of how people form social groups proposed by cultural sociologists * Boundary-work, sociology of divisions between fields of knowledge

Places

* Boundary, Derbyshire, a civil parish and hamlet in South Derbyshire, England * Boundary, Leicestershire, a village in Leicestershire, England *

Boundary, Staffordshire Boundary is a village in the civil parish of Forsbrook, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, near to the town of Cheadle. It is just outside of the city of Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often a ...

, a village in Staffordshire, England *

Boundary Ranges The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains. They begin at the Nass River, near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle in the Canadian p ...

, also known as the Boundary Range, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada and Alaska, United States * Boundary County, ID, the northernmost county in Idaho *

Boundary Country The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west o ...

, a region of southern British Columbia, Canada **

Kootenay Boundary Regional District The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) is one of 28 regional districts in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the population was 31,447. The area is 8,095.62 km2 (3,125.74 sq mi). The RDKB wa ...

, a regional district in British Columbia **

West Kootenay-Boundary West Kootenay-Boundary was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. The seat combined the Rossland/Trail/Castlegar area (the putative ''West Kootenay'' component) that had previ ...

, a provincial electoral district in British Columbia **

Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan-Boundary was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia spanning the area from the Similkameen towns of Kaleden and Keremeos to Grand Forks and Christina Lake, and including the southern Okanagan towns o ...

, a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia **

Boundary-Similkameen Boundary-Similkameen is a provincial riding formed in 2008. It includes the populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley, West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet. The riding's name corresponds to that of a former riding in the same area, with s ...

, a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia *

Boundary Falls, British Columbia Boundary Falls is a locality in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, south of the city of Greenwood and west of the city of Grand Forks, British Columbia Grand Forks, population 4,112, is a city in the Boundary ...

, also known as Boundary, a former railway town in the Boundary Country of British Columbia *

Boundary Waters The Boundary Waters, also called the Quetico-Superior Country, is a region of wilderness straddling the Canada–United States border between Ontario and Minnesota, in the area just west of Lake Superior. While "Boundary Waters" is a common name ...

, a region on the boundary between Ontario and Minnesota *

Stikine, British Columbia Stikine, also known formerly as Boundary, is an unincorporated locality and former customs post on the Stikine River, located on the Canadian side of the British Columbia-Alaska boundary on the Stikine River's west (right) bank. The customs post ...

, called Boundary from 1930 to 1964, a former customs post on the Stikine River at the Alaska–British Columbia border *

Boundary City, Indiana Boundary City is an unincorporated community in Pike Township, Jay County, Indiana, in the United States. History A post office was established as Boundary in 1852, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. The name of the co ...

, a community in the United States

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*, a number of ships with this name *

Boundaries in landscape history Boundaries—particularly field boundaries—are among the oldest features in an English rural landscape. Although a boundary itself is an abstract concept, the boundary can often be seen by differences in land use on either side. Longevity of bou ...

, the divide between areas of differing land used *

Boundary (real estate) A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line or a lot line). The boundary (in Latin: ''limes'') may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a ...

, the legal boundary between units of real property * Boundary (company), an American application performance management company * Boundary critique, a concept about the meaning and validity of propositions * Boundary turbulence, a break in expectation of how private information is held within a group of knowledge owners *Boundary Ale, a beer made by Moosehead Breweries *Geological boundary, a boundary between different

geological unit A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize ...

s *Boundary, software for secure remote access to systems based on trusted identity developed by HashiCorp

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