demarcation lines
Borders between zones
Demarcation lines are boundaries that separate distinct areas, territories, or categories.
The term often appears in military and political contexts—ceasefire lines, borders between zones of control: The demarcation line divided North and South Korea.
More abstractly, demarcation lines mark where one thing ends and another begins: The demarcation lines between work and personal life have blurred.
- limitMaximum allowed extent
- buffer zonesSeparating areas preventing contact
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- Berlin WallCold War partition
iron curtain · territorial waters · partition · border · division · historical boundaries · land surveys · separation · 38th parallel · peace treaties · peacekeeping · no man's land · definitions · interface · neighboring countries · regional stability · limits · boundaries
- bordersborder, boundary, border crossing, national borders, international borders
- territoryterritory, land, region, domain, realm
- boundary markersboundary stones, cairns, stele, fence posts, terminus
demarcation linesfuzzy boundaries
Imprecise demarcations between categories
gray areas · gradients · soft edges · spectrums · liminal spaces
demarcation linesintegration
Combining into a whole
merger · confluence · unification · unity · fusion
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