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de·mar·ca·tion line

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. limit, demarcation, demarcation linenoun

    the boundary of a specific area

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  1. Demarcation line

    A political demarcation line is a geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.

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  1. demarcation line

    A demarcation line is a defined boundary or separation between two areas or objects, often associated with different properties, rights, jurisdictions, or functions. It is often used in fields such as politics, geography, and sciences to denote a clear division or distinction.

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  1. Demarcation line

    A demarcation line means simply a boundary around a specific area, but is commonly used to denote a temporary geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire. See the following examples: ⁕The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations on 7 June 2001 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. ⁕The Curzon Line was a demarcation line proposed in 1920 by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon of Kedleston as a possible armistice line between Poland to the west and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the east during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–20. ⁕The Foch Line was a temporary demarcation line between Poland and Lithuania proposed by the Entente in the aftermath of World War I. ⁕The Line of Demarcation was an imaginary longitude, moved slightly from the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI to divide new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain. This line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas. ⁕The Mason-Dixon line is a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of demarcation line in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of demarcation line in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of demarcation line in a Sentence

  1. Kim Jong:

    I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person, a new history starts now. An age of peace, from the starting point of history.

  2. Kim Jong:

    I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person.

  3. Daniel McShane:

    We were about 30 feet from the [Military Demarcation Line] and they came up to 10 feet, we have a phone in our office, but they’re not answering.

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