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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: noun 1: a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited; "tensions exist on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea" [syn: {demilitarized zone}] From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: DMZ [common] Literally, De-Militarized Zone. Figuratively, the portion of a private network that is visible through the network's firewalls (see {firewall machine}). Coined in the late 1990s as jargon, this term is now borderline techspeak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: |
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