Demarcation is the act of creating a boundary around a place or thing.
Demarcation may also refer to:
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Demarcation line
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A political demarcation line is a geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.
Africa
* Moroccan Wall, delimiting the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara from the Sahrawi- ...
, a temporary border between the countries
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Demarcation problem
In philosophy of science and epistemology, the demarcation problem is the question of how to distinguish between science and non-science. It examines the boundaries between science, pseudoscience, and other products of human activity, like art an ...
, the question of which practices of doing science permit the resulting theories to lie within the boundaries of knowledge
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Demarcation dispute
A demarcation dispute is a dispute between (usually) two trades unions as to whose members should do a particular job, and is associated with multi-unionism in an enterprise, where two labour unions claim the right to represent the same class or g ...
, may arise when two different trade unions both claim the right to represent the same class or group of workers
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Demarcation point
In telephony, the demarcation point is the point at which the public switched telephone network ends and connects with the customer's on-premises wiring. It is the dividing line which determines who is responsible for installation and maintena ...
, in telephony, the point at which the telephone company network ends and connects with the wiring at the customer premises
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Demarcation transactions, starting and ending database transactions using begin, commit, and rollback methods
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