Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

demilitarized zone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables: de-mil-i-ta-rized -zone
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An area, often on a border between military factions, in which military forces and operations are prohibited. (This sense is a translation hub.)

noun

A subnetwork of a LAN, exposed to the internet or another untrusted network but firewalled off from the rest of the LAN.

Inflected Forms

demilitarized zones (plural) DMZ (alternative, abbreviation)

Synonyms

perimeter network dmz

Questions

What does demilitarized zone mean?: An area, often on a border between military factions, in which military forces and operations are prohibited. (This sense is a translation hub.)

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