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Noun: twilight zone
  1. The ambiguous region between two categories, states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
    "but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in the twilight zone between humour and vulgarity";
    - no man's land
     
  2. The lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach
    "Strange creatures adapt to the dim light of the ocean's twilight zone"

Derived forms: twilight zones

Type of: ambiguity, Davy Jones [informal], Davy Jones's locker, equivocalness, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed

Encyclopedia: Twilight zone