demarcation

/ˌdɛm.ɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/US/ˌdɛm.ɑɹˈkeɪ.ʃən/

demarcation noun: the act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.

Noun

demarcation (countable and uncountable, plural demarcations)

The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
- 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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 48–49
Any strictly defined separation.
- There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.
- In the sea there is no demarcation between the hunter and the hunted, as there is on the African plains.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 7

demarcation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

demarcation in Hindi

act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit: रेखांकन rekhāṅkan

demarcation in Tamil

எல்லை குறித்தல், எல்லை வரையறை, எல்லையை வரையறுத்தல், வற்றுமைக்காடு, எல்லை வரைப்படுத்தல்

demarcation in Malayalam

distinction, separation, differentiation: അതിർത്തി രേപ്പെടുത്തൽ, അതിരുതിരിക്കൽ, അതിർത്തി നിശ്ചയിക്കൽ, ചിഹ്നനം, സംലക്ഷണം, അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തൽ
border, boundary, borderline: അതിർത്തി, സീമന്തം, അതിര്, പരിധിരേഖ, പ്രാന്തം, വിഭജനരേഖ

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demarcation in Indonesian: demarkasi

Examples of demarcation in a sentence

Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science.
The poriferous zones form the line of demarcation between these two classes of columnar plates.
The caravans were the demarcation between the non-radioactive areas and the radioactive areas.

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Forms of demarcation

plural	demarcations
alternative form	demarkation

Plural of demarcation: demarcations

Origin of demarcation

First recorded c.1752, from Spanish línea de demarcación and/or Portuguese linha de demarcação, the demarcation line laid down by the Pope on May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Both derive from demarcar, from de- + marcar (“to mark”), from Italian marcare, from the same Germanic root as march.

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Phrases with demarcation

Words that rhyme with demarcation

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Questions about demarcation

What does demarcation mean?: Demarcation means the act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
What is demarcation in Hindi?: Demarcation in Hindi is रेखांकन (rekhāṅkan). See Demarcation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is demarcation?: Demarcation is a noun.
How do you pronounce demarcation?: Demarcation is pronounced /ˌdɛm.ɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of demarcation?: The plural of demarcation is demarcations.

Words near demarcation in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: demarcation (page history and authors); demarcation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demarcation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demarcation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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