demarcation
noun
the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
demarkation
-
a variation of
demarcation.
Example Sentences
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Next morning, under sealed orders, the train crossed the demarkation line at Moulins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Millionaire mine owners, managers, engineers, and on down through the list to the humblest "hunk," were served at its long bar, which had, by common usage become divided by invisible lines of demarkation.
From Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
There is no distinct demarkation between this enlargement and the spinal cord.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
De Quincey's distinction between the literature of knowledge and that of power is our line of demarkation.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
Outside a few principals like Morton and his immediate satellites, there was no accurate demarkation between the desperadoes and the miners.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
