Term: buffer zone: a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: shell: the housing or outer covering of something
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: propenoic acid: an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: montia: small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: wicket: cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: final period: the final division into which the play of a game is divided
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: fibrocartilage: cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: rigor mortis: muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: shaking: the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: geophagy: eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior
Broader: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | Unrelated: aspergillosis: severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys