The International Date Line serves as the "line of demarcation" between two consecutive calendar dates.
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Demarcation
//ˌdɛm.ɑɹˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "demarcation" (75 found)
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54 translations across 17 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սահմանազատում noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
Bulgarian
3 entries- разграничаване noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- разграничение noun (thus fixed limit)
- разграничение noun (strictly defined separation)
Catalan
2 entries- demarcació noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarcació noun (thus fixed limit)
Czech
1 entries- vymezení noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
Danish
4 entries- afgrænsning noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarkationslinje noun (thus fixed limit)
- faggrænse noun (strictly defined separation)
- grænse noun (strictly defined separation)
Dutch
4 entries- afbakening noun (strictly defined separation)
- afgrenzing noun (strictly defined separation)
- aflijning noun (strictly defined separation)
- demarcatie noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
Finnish
4 entries- demarkaatio noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarkaatiolinja noun (thus fixed limit)
- raja noun (thus fixed limit)
- rajalinja noun (thus fixed limit)
French
2 entries- démarcation noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- démarcation noun (thus fixed limit)
German
1 entries- Abgrenzung noun (strictly defined separation)
Greek
3 entries- διαχωρισμός noun (strictly defined separation)
- οροθεσία noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- χάραξη ορίων noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
Indonesian
2 entries- demarkasi noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarkasi noun (thus fixed limit)
Italian
1 entries- demarcazione noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
Portuguese
3 entries- demarcação noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarcação noun (thus fixed limit)
- demarcação noun (strictly defined separation)
Russian
4 entries- демарка́ция noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- разграниче́ние noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- разграниче́ние noun (thus fixed limit)
- разграниче́ние noun (strictly defined separation)
Spanish
4 entries- demarcación noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- demarcación noun (thus fixed limit)
- demarcación noun (strictly defined separation)
- frontera noun (thus fixed limit)
Swedish
1 entries- avgränsning noun (thus fixed limit)
Yiddish
3 entries- דעמאַרק noun (thus fixed limit)
- דעמאַרקאַציע noun (act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit)
- דעמאַרקאַציע noun (thus fixed limit)
Sample sentences
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My strife for learning archaic words has no demarcation.
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They have not been able to make progress on the demarcation of the disputed border.
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About sunset, he was leaning on the remains of an old wall, which had once probably surrounded a Roman encampment, and now served as a line of demarcation between two villages, as jealous of each other's claims as near neighbours usually are.
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