1960, in computing, agent noun from delimit.

(ANSI) A character used to indicate the beginning or the end of a character string. Syn: separator.

A character used to indicate the beginning and end of a character string, i.e., a symbol stream, such as words, groups of words, or frames. 2. A flag that separates and organizes items of data.

Internet Glossary A punctuation character or group of characters that separates two names or two pieces of data, or marks the beginning or end of a programming construct. Delimiters are used in almost every computer application. For example, in specifying DOS pathnames, the backslash () is the delimiter that separates directories and filenames. Oth [..]

A punctuation character or group of characters that separates two names or two pieces of data, or marks the beginning or end of a programming construct. Delimiters are used in almost every computer ap [..]

In a general sense, any character or sequence of characters used in an electronic database to separate discrete elements of data within a field (or fields) of a record. In the MARC record, a character [..]

A delimiter is a unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set. Delimiters are used in programming languages to spec [..]

A character or string that sets bounds to an arbitrarily-sized textual object, not to be confused with a separator or terminator. "To delimit" really just means "to surround" or "to enclose" (like these parentheses are doing).

A character

A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the beginning and ending point in a string. In Python you can use the ", ', """ or ''' characters as string delimiters.

Character ( ‡), followed by a single letter or number code, used to define the beginning of a subfield within a variable field in a MARC bibliographic or authority record. See also subfield. For batchload services, the delimiter is entered as a dollar sign ($). If immediately followed by a lowercase letter or single numeral, OCLC converts the dolla [..]

1. A character used to indicate the beginning and end of a character string, i.e., a symbol stream, such as words, groups of words, or frames. 2. A flag that separates and organizes items of data.

A character used to indicate the beginning and end of a character string, i.e., a symbol stream, such as words, groups of words, or frames. A flag that separates and organizes items of data.