Meaning of boundary term | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A word or phrase that is used for othering; a term that serves to identify someone or something as other than the speaker.
2. A term that must be added to an equation to represent a boundary condition.

Examples

“'Sustainability' is a boundary term, signifying complex interactions between science, politics, policy making and development (Scoones, 2010: 153-4).”

“'Poor white trash' is likely the most enduring and degrading in a long line of 'stigmatypes'– 'stigmatizing boundary terms that simultaneously denote and enact cultural and cognitive divides between ingroups and outgroups' –such as 'redneck,' 'cracker,' and 'hillbilly.'”

“A term which could be seen as a high boundary term ('the enemy' as opposed to 'the friend') is used, but Paul tells them, as it were, to dismantle such a boundary from the inside, by undertaking acts of love and compassion.”

“If M is truncated to have toral boundary, there will be a boundary term after the integration by parts step.”

“Thus the boundary term ambiguity is under physical control: Each distinct choice of the quasi-local expression given by the Hamiltonian boundary term is associated with a physically distinct boundary condition.”

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