separation zone

separation zone

An area between two adjacent horizontal or vertical areas into which units are not to proceed unless certain safety measures can be fulfilled.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Sara said: "The main challenges were sea sickness, jelly fish which were huge, and the separation zone. The separation zone is the crossing from Dover through the English inshore traffic zone into the South West shipping lane.
For ships transiting such areas, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has established Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS), which regulates the direction of traffic for ships transiting with a separation zone between the main traffic lanes.
"Today, UN peacekeepers accompanied by Russian military police conducted their first patrols in six years in the separation zone," Rudskoi told a briefing for journalists in Moscow.
According to the report, the Israeli occupation entity has set up facilities inside the separation zone and in the occupied Syrian Golan where the terrorist groups used to go, besides setting up a hospital near the separation line in which, according to the Israeli entity, health care was provided to Syrian civilians
Research has shown that spikes can construct a separation zone over blunt bodies to significantly lower the aerodynamic heat rate and pressure distribution, which was valuable for thermal protection and drag reduction.
According to the development morphology and degree of fractures, the roadway surrounding rocks can be divided into fracture zone, separation zone, and complete zone.
For both detailed and CFD models, the LES solutions captures flow features such as separation zone near ceiling more accurately.
This causes some inhomogeneity in separation zone leading to zone spreading.
Most online concentration techniques are based on the velocity change in analyte between the sample zone and the separation zone and are easy to be operated.