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twilight zone

An area of ambiguity between two distinct states or conditions: a twilight zone between good and evil.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

twilight zone

1. any indefinite or transitional condition or area

2. (Human Geography) an area of a city or town, usually surrounding the central business district, where houses have become dilapidated

3. (Physical Geography) the lowest level of the ocean to which light can penetrate

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twi′light zone`

an ill-defined area between two distinct conditions, categories, etc.; an indefinite boundary.

[1905–10]

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Noun	1.	twilight zone - the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach Davy Jones, Davy Jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed - the bottom of a sea or ocean
	2.	twilight zone - the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both); "but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity"; "in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression" no man's land equivocalness, ambiguity - unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

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