demarcation

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  1. noun The setting or marking of boundaries or limits.
  2. noun A separation; a distinction: a line of demarcation between two rock strata.

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  • We had not yet met them, and the demarcation was just ahead, the halfway point. —  HOW I LOST THE
  • When they reached it, the demarcation was striking. —  Faun ; Games
  • We have no reservations to brotherly ties with Syria and we hope we would be able to discuss issues like border demarcation, arms smuggling and missing Lebanese as the need arises. —  Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut
  • The demarcation, as far as close-up observers are concerned, between sub-critical and critical is pretty bright. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • Leading the struggle to change the demarcation is Paulo Cesar Quartiero, the largest rice farmer in Roraima, former mayor of the town of Pacaraima (part of which lies in Raposa Serra do Sol), and president of the Association of Rice Producers of Roraima (ARPR), a powerful group of rice growers integrated into national agribusiness markets. —  Home
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  1. Spanish demarcación, from demarcar, to mark boundaries : de-, off (from Latin dē-; see de-) + marcar, to mark (from Italian marcare, from Old Italian, of Germanic origin; see merg- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also written demarkation; from French démarcation = Spanish demarcacion = Portuguese demarcação = Italian demarcazione, from New Latin *demarcatio(n-), from demarcare, set the bounds of: see demarcate, demark.
 

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