TWILIGHT ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twilight zone mean? 

• TWILIGHT ZONE (noun)
  The noun TWILIGHT ZONE has 2 senses:

1. the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach

2. the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)

  Familiarity information: TWILIGHT ZONE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWILIGHT ZONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("twilight zone" is a kind of...):

Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; sea floor; seabed (the bottom of a sea or ocean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

no man's land; twilight zone

Context example:

in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression

Hypernyms ("twilight zone" is a kind of...):

ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)

 Context examples 

White sharks, which are warm-blooded animals, used a combination of warm- and cold-water eddies to locate food in the twilight zone, while blue sharks — a cold-blooded species — relied exclusively on warm-water eddies.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

Blue sharks use large, swirling ocean currents known as eddies to fast-track their way to food in the twilight zone — a layer of the sea between 200 and 1,000 meters deep, according to new research by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)