line of demarcation


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line of demarcation

A line defining the boundary of a buffer zone or area of limitation. A line of demarcation may also be used to define the forward limits of disputing or belligerent forces after each phase of disengagement or withdrawal has been completed. See also area of limitation; buffer zone; disengagement; peace operations.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Suddenly the projectile passed the line of demarcation between intense light and absolute darkness, and was plunged in profound night!
On the view that species are only strongly marked and permanent varieties, and that each species first existed as a variety, we can see why it is that no line of demarcation can be drawn between species, commonly supposed to have been produced by special acts of creation, and varieties which are acknowledged to have been produced by secondary laws.
The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
At any garrisoned point where the line of demarcation between one country and another is so very narrow as at Niagara, desertion from the ranks can scarcely fail to be of frequent occurrence: and it may be reasonably supposed that when the soldiers entertain the wildest and maddest hopes of the fortune and independence that await them on the other side, the impulse to play traitor, which such a place suggests to dishonest minds, is not weakened.
There appeared to be no line of demarcation between the young person's excessive innocence, and another person's guiltiest knowledge.
So too is drawing a clear line of demarcation between Hong Kong companies and Chinese ones.
The treaty defined a straight line of demarcation from pole to pole measured at 515 kilometres from Cape Verde island going through Brasil and separating the two hemispheres of the world.
He said: "Because of the division of the world into time zones, and our measurement of the world in terms of longitude, there is a line, 180 degrees longitude from Greenwich -- the International Date Line or 'line of demarcation' -- where consecutive days and dates meet.
Half the motel lies in Nevada, half in California, and a red line of demarcation runs right through the middle.
Hazart Imam Hussain (AS) is not only a great hero of our Islamic history but is the symbol of a unique philosophy and way of life which draws a line of demarcation between noble and evil forces, he further said.
South Korea also asked Pyongyang on Sunday to relocate its artillery away from the line of demarcation separating both nations, according to Yonhap.