borne

Meaning

1. bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
2. territorial boundary marker
3. territorial or geographical border
4. milestone such as those alongside a roadway
5. (slang) a kilometre; a click
6. mark
7. limit of a list or of an interval
8. machine

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɔʁn/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.

Sentences

Cette borne est atteinte pour les courbes de génériques .

This limit is reached for generic curves.