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Princeton's WordNet

  1. demilitarized zone, DMZnoun

    a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited

    "tensions exist on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea"

Wikipedia

  1. dmz

    A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) is an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances. A DZ may sometimes form a de facto international border, such as the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Other examples of demilitarized zones are a 9-mile wide area between Iraq and Kuwait; Antarctica (preserved for scientific exploration and study); and outer space (space more than 100 km or 62 mi from the earth's surface). Many demilitarized zones are considered neutral territory because neither side is allowed to control it, even for non-combat administration. Some zones remain demilitarized after an agreement has awarded control to a state which (under the DZ terms) had originally ceded its right to maintain military forces in the disputed territory. It is also possible for powers to agree on the demilitarization of a zone without formally settling their respective territorial claims, enabling the dispute to be resolved by peaceful means such as diplomatic dialogue or an international court. Several demilitarized zones have also unintentionally become wildlife preserves because their land is unsafe for construction or less exposed to human disturbances (including hunting). Examples include the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the Cypriot Demilitarized Zone (The Green Line), and the former Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone which divided Vietnam into two countries (North Vietnam and South Vietnam) from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976.

ChatGPT

  1. dmz

    A DMZ, which stands for Demilitarized Zone in military terms, is generally referred to in the field of IT and cybersecurity, where it acts as a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted network, usually the internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional layer of security to the organization's local area network (LAN), so that external attackers only have access to equipment in the DMZ, rather than the whole of the network.

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  1. DMZ

    DMZ was a first-wave American punk rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, strongly influenced by 1960s garage rock. In early 1976, Jeff Conolly stole the lead vocalist position in the nascent band by out-performing their singer at one of the band's practices. Along with his vocals he brought two things the band lacked: keyboards and original songs. Just over one year later, in April 1977, the band went into the recording studio with Craig Leon. Four songs from that session were released by Bomp! on a 7" vinyl EP. DMZ was signed by Sire Records and went to New York to record their debut album, produced by Flo & Eddie. It was released in 1978 without much success and by the end of the year the group had splintered. Guitarists J. J. Rassler and Preston Wayne left to start the Odds, and Conolly, bassist Rick Coraccio and drummer Paul Murphy formed Lyres. DMZ has re-formed periodically; a 1993 set appears on the Live at the Rat album. Early drummer David Robinson left DMZ to join The Cars. Bassist Mike Lewis later joined the Lyres for a couple of years and later recorded with The A-Bones and Yo La Tengo.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. DMZ

    [common] Literally, De-Militarized Zone. Figuratively, the portion of a private network that is visible through the network's firewalls (see firewall machine). Coined in the late 1990s as jargon, this term is now borderline techspeak.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DMZ in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DMZ in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of DMZ in a Sentence

  1. Suzanne Scholte:

    If they truly cared, they would cross the China-North Korea border instead, which is actually more dangerous now than the DMZ.

  2. Christine Ahn:

    I believe that we are, basically by crossing the DMZ, breaking through this mental state that this is a permanent division.

  3. Defense David Shear:

    We suspended part of the exercise temporarily in order to allow our side to coordinate with the ROK (Republic of Korea) side on the subject of the exchange fire across the DMZ, and the exercise is being conducted now according to plan.

  4. Suzanne Scholte:

    It is absolutely outrageous that they completely ignore the suffering of the North Korean people, especially North Korean women, if they truly cared, they would cross the South Korea border instead, which is actually more dangerous now than the DMZ.

  5. Bruce Klingner:

    Along the DMZ, North Korea's military forces are still in place, there's been no decrease in the North Korean military threat whatsoever.

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