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  • 21DÉMARCATION — s. f. Action de marquer, de délimiter. Il ne s emploie guère que dans cette phrase, Ligne de démarcation, La ligne tracée sur la mappemonde, en 1493, par le pape Alexandre VI, qui, de son autorité pontificale, donnait aux Espagnols les terres qu… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 22démarcation — (dé mar ka sion ; en poésie, de cinq syllabes) s. f. 1°   Action de marquer, de limiter. •   Le prétexte politique de cette espèce d insurrection sacerdotale, c est, messieurs, que la même puissance qui a changé l ancienne distribution du royaume …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 23Demarcation — A setting of limits; a boundary; marking the limits of, delimiting; setting apart, separating. The word demarcation is used in medicine mainly in the sense of determining and marking off boundaries. For example, the surface demarcation in respect …

    Medical dictionary

  • 24demarcation — n. a demarcation between (lines of demarcation between the two zones) * * * [ˌdiːmɑː keɪʃ(ə)n] a demarcation between (lines of demarcation between the two zones) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 25demarcation — de|mar|ca|tion [ˌdi:ma:ˈkeıʃən US a:r ] n [U] formal [Date: 1700 1800; : Spanish; Origin: demarcación, from marcar to mark ] 1.) the point at which one area of work, responsibility etc ends and another begins demarcation between ▪ traditional… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26DÉMARCATION — n. f. Action de marquer, de délimiter. Il s’emploie surtout dans l’expression Ligne de démarcation, Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés. Fig., Tracer une ligne de démarcation… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 27demarcation — noun a) The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire. There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions. b) A… …

    Wiktionary

  • 28demarcation — [[t]di͟ːmɑː(r)ke͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft N n Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things. [FORMAL] ...the demarcation line between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir... Talks were continuing about …

    English dictionary

  • 29demarcation — /dee mahr kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something. 2. separation by distinct boundaries: line of demarcation. Also, demarkation. [1720 30; Latinization of Sp demarcación (in linea de demarcación line of… …

    Universalium

  • 30demarcation — [18] As its form and meaning would suggest, demarcation is indeed related to mark, but only in a distinctly roundabout way. The word comes, possibly via French, from Spanish demarcación, a derivative of the verb demarcar ‘mark out the boundaries… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins