demarcator

plural demarcators

1. One who or that which demarcates.

   The event [the assassination of John F. Kennedy] was a demarcator. It was the last major public event to come to us in black and white. The urban riots and the Vietnam war, coming right along, were brought to us in living color.

   1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6

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   Part of the difficulty with this task, as we have seen, is that there may be no ready demarcators of gender divisions, or, if there are such demarcators, they may not be made along lines that are susceptible of analysis in Eurocentric terms.

   2013, Jane Duran, Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist Epistemologies, page 256