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Three-mile Limit

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Noun

1. three-mile limit

the limit of a nation's territorial waters

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Three-mile Limit

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noun
international law
the range of a nation's territorial waters, extending to three nautical miles from shore

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Three-mile Limit

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the outer limit of a zone of water extending three miles offshore, sometimes regarded as the extent of the territorial jurisdiction of the coastal country

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Three-mile Limit

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n.
The outer limit of the area extending three miles out to sea from the coast of a country or state, traditionally considered to constitute the country or state's territorial waters.

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