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THREE-MILE LIMIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does three-mile limit mean?
• THREE-MILE LIMIT (noun)
The noun THREE-MILE LIMIT has 1 sense:
1. the limit of a nation's territorial waters
Familiarity information: THREE-MILE LIMIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The limit of a nation's territorial waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("three-mile limit" is a kind of...):
demarcation; demarcation line; limit (the boundary of a specific area)
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