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zone

climatic zones A. North Frigid Zone B. North Temperate Zone C. Torrid Zone D. South Temperate Zone E. South Frigid Zone (Jerry Malone)

1. An area or a region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic.
2. 1. Any of the five regions of the surface of the earth that are loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude, including the Torrid Zone, the North and South Temperate zones, and the North and South Frigid zones.
   2. A similar division on any other planet.
   3. Mathematics. A portion of a sphere bounded by the intersections of two parallel planes with the sphere.
3. Ecology. An area characterized by distinct physical conditions and populated by communities of certain kinds of organisms.
4. Anatomy. A ringlike or cylindrical growth or structure.
5. Geology. A region or stratum distinguished by composition or content.
6. A section of an area or territory established for a specific purpose, as a section of a city restricted to a particular type of building, enterprise, or activity: a residential zone.
7. An area of a given radius within which a uniform rate is charged, as for transportation or shipping.
8. Computer Science.
   1. A region on a punch card or on magnetic tape in which nondigital information is recorded.
   2. A section of storage to be used for a particular purpose.
9. Archaic. A belt or girdle.

1. To divide into zones.
2. To designate or mark off into zones.
3. To surround or encircle with or as if with a belt or girdle.

1. Of, relating to, associated with, or divided into zones; zonal.
2. Sports. Of, relating to, or being a system of defense, especially in basketball and football, in which each defender guards a predetermined part of the playing area rather than an individual player.

zone out Informal.

1. To lose concentration or become inattentive.

in the zone

1. Informal. In a state of focused attention or energy so that one's performance is enhanced: a goalie who was in the zone throughout the playoffs.

[Middle English, one of the encircling regions of the earth, from Latin zōna, girdle, celestial zone, from Greek zōnē.]

(1) An administrative unit defined in a DNS server. It may refer to a single domain name or a subdomain. See zone file, DNS records and DNS.

(2) A logical subnet in a Fibre Channel SAN network. Zones tie together groups of servers and storage devices for daily processing, but can be dynamically changed as required. For example, in order to enable periodic backups to storage devices outside the individual zones, the zones can be widened on the fly to reach them. See Fibre Channel.

Geographic region used to define sales territories, market test areas, or delivery areas. The U.S. Postal Service identifies neighborhood delivery zones by the last two digits of the five-digit zip code. Some direct mail merchandise pricing is based upon zones for which there are predetermined shipping and handling charges, depending upon the distance between each zone and the shipping point. See also zone charges.

An area set off by local ordinance for specific use, subject to certain restrictions or conditions. See zoning.Example: A zoning map designates various zones with associated land use restrictions.

C-l: commercial (service station, convenience store, etc.)

R-2: low-density residential (single-family housing)

R-4: high-density residential (apartments)

noun

A part of the earth's surface: area, belt, district, locality, neighborhood, quarter, region, tract. Informal neck of the woods. See territory.

A region or area with specific characteristics or boundary.

1. In an air-conditioning or heating system, a space (or group of spaces), served by the system, whose temperature (or humidity) is regulated by a single control.
2. A vertical or horizontal subdivision of a water supply system, sprinkler system, or standpipe system.
3. See pressure zone.

An encircling region or area; by extension, any area with specific characteristics or boundary. See also zona.

• autonomous innervation z. — areas of innervation supplied by a single nerve, as for example the patch of skin on the medial side of the horse fore pastern which is supplied solely by the median nerve; used to assess the integrity of individual nerves.
• ciliary z. — the outer of the two regions into which the anterior surface of the iris is divided by the angular line.
• comfort z. — an environmental temperature between 55° and 70° F (13° and 21° C) with a humidity of 30 to 55%.
• epileptogenic z. — an area, stimulation of which may provoke an epileptic seizure.
• z. of inhibition — the area without bacterial growth surrounding an antimicrobial-impregnated disk in an antimicrobial sensitivity test.
• provisional calcification z. — in developing bone longitudinal tubes of mineralized matrix which surround hypertrophic chondrocytes.
• transitional z. — the circle in the equator of the lens of the eye in which epithelial fibers are developed into lens fibers.

The word Zone (from Greek ζωνη) originally meant a belt, worn in various forms by ancient Greek men and women, as in the Orthodox priestly Zone (vestment). In Classical Antiquity, this was also extended to cover the idea of dividing the earth into latitudinal belts or Climes. Now the word may refer to a general region or domain in many contexts, including:

• Zone (BS), a town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
• Zone defense, in basketball
• Zoning, in urban planning
• Plant hardiness zone, in gardening and other agriculture, tells people how the climate in their area affects plants. A gardener will tend to refer to this simply as, for example, "Zone 6", with the number changing according to his location.
• DVD region code
• Solaris Zones (also called Solaris Containers) is a virtualization feature first available with Solaris 10
• DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
• Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
• Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
• Zone system, a method of taking black-and-white pictures
• Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
• ZONE, an all-female J-pop group.
• MSN Games, once known by its domain name, Zone.com, is an online video game site created by Microsoft.
• The zone, a mental state in which the person is fully immersed in some activity.
• A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
• One of five geographical zones of the earth, being the tropical or torrid zone, the north and south temperate zones, and the north and south frigid zones.
• Zone Records, a record label.
• Level names on early Sonic the Hedgehog games.
• Zone, a three-act drama by Marcel Dubé.
• The zone (die (Ost)Zone in German) deragotary for German Democratic Republic.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - zone, område, bælte, areal, distrikt
v. tr. - inddele i zoner

idioms:

• zone defense    zone-opdækning

Nederlands (Dutch)
gebied, zone

Français (French)
n. - (Astron, Géog, Math, etc) zone, (Mil) zone, secteur (d'une ville), (US) zone (postale)
v. tr. - diviser en zones, diviser en secteurs (une ville)

idioms:

• zone defense    (Sport) défense de zone
• zone out    effectuer un zonage de

Deutsch (German)
n. - Zone, Gürtel, Bezirk
v. - in Zonen einteilen

idioms:

• zone defense    (Basketball) Zonenverteidigung
• zone out    einschlafen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ζώνη, περιοχή
v. - διαιρώ σε ζώνες, χαρακτηρίζω (περιοχή)

idioms:

• zone defense    άμυνα ζώνης

Italiano (Italian)
zona

idioms:

• zone defense    difesa territoriale, difesa a zona

Português (Portuguese)
n. - zona (f)
v. - dividir em zonas

idioms:

• zone defense    defesa de zonas

Русский (Russian)
зона, пояс, разделять на зоны, устанавливать зональный тариф, опоясывать

idioms:

• zone defense    зонная защита

Español (Spanish)
n. - zona, distrito, región
v. tr. - zonificar, marcar con zonas

idioms:

• zone defense    (deportes) defensa zonal esp. en básquetbol o fútbol
• zone out    dormirse, perder la concentración, abstraerse del entorno para relajarse

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - zon, område, bälte, distrikt, färgstrimma, band, Orions bälte, gördel, bälte (åld.)
v. - indela i zoner, zonplanera, lokalisera

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
地域, 地区, 地带, 环绕, 使分成地带

idioms:

• zone defense    区域防守

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 地域, 地區, 地帶
v. tr. - 環繞, 使分成地帶

idioms:

• zone defense    區域防守

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 지대, 지역, 구역
v. tr. - 띠로 두르다, ~을 띠 모양으로 구획하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 地帯, 地域, 帯, 同一料金区域, 配達区域, 地区, 帯域
v. - 地帯に分ける, 指定する

idioms:

• zone defense    ゾーンディフェンス

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) منطقه, نطاق (فعل) قسم الى منطقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮איזור, תחום, שטח, איזור מיקוד, איזור דואר, איזור אקלימי של כדור-הארץ, רצועת ארץ, שכבה גיאולוגית, השטח שבין שני מעגלים בעלי מרכז משותף, פני השטח של כדור בין שני מישורים מקבילים, פני השטח של חרוט או גליל בין שני מישורים מקבילים החותכים אות במאונך לצירו‬
v. tr. - ‮חילק לאיזורים, הקצה איזור‬

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