Usually means: Boundary or distinction between categories.
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  1. demarcation: Merriam-Webster
  2. demarcation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demarcation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demarcation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demarcation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demarcation, demarcation: Wordnik
  7. demarcation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demarcation: Wiktionary
  9. demarcation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demarcation (demarkation): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demarcation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Demarcation, demarcation: Dictionary.com
  13. demarcation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Demarcation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Demarcation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. demarcation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. demarcation: Rhymezone
  18. Demarcation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. demarcation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. demarcation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. demarcation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. demarcation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demarcation: Legal dictionary

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  1. demarcation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. demarcation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Demarcation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. demarcation: Medical dictionary
  5. Demarcation: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
▸ noun:  A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
▸ noun:  Any strictly defined separation.

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contrast, limit, line, demarcation line, dividing line, demarkation, marcation, delimitation, definition, marking, more...

Opposite:
integration, unification, blending, merging

Types:
line, border, boundary, edge, perimeter, more...

Phrases:
Demarcation line, demarcation lines, Demarcation point, demarcation dispute, demarcation potential, more...

Adjectives:
clear, sharper, strict, rigid, precise, distinct, territorial, social, exact, cut, definite

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Similar:
contrast, limit, line, demarcation line, dividing line, demarkation, marcation, delimitation, definition, marking, more...

Opposite:
integration, unification, blending, merging

Types:
line, border, boundary, edge, perimeter, more...

Phrases:
Demarcation line, demarcation lines, Demarcation point, demarcation dispute, demarcation potential, line of demarcation, Demarcation problem, Military Demarcation Line, demarcation time moment, more...

Adjectives:
clear, sharper, strict, rigid, precise, distinct, territorial, social, exact, cut, definite

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    red,     yellow,     orange,     black,     white, more...



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