zone

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  • v zone separate or apportion into sections "partition a room off"
  • v zone regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
  • n zone (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
  • n zone an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
  • n zone any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
  • n zone a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
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• Interesting fact: Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
• • Zone (Nat. Hist) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.
  • Zone (Nat. Hist) A band or stripe extending around a body.
  • Zone A girdle; a cincture. "An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.""Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.""An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.""Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound."
  • Zone (Cryst) A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.
  • Zone (Crystallog) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  • Zone (Biogeography) An area or part of a region characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc.
  • Zone any area to or within which a shipment or transportation cost is constant;
  • Zone (Railroad Econ) Any circular or ring-shaped area within which the street-car companies make no differences of fare.
  • Zone Circuit; circumference.
  • Zone (Geog) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. "Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.""Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades."
  • Zone (Railroad Econ) The aggregate of stations, in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a shipment of traffic originates.
  • Zone (Math) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
  • v. t Zone To girdle; to encircle.
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• Interesting fact: If you travel across the former Soviet Union you will cross seven time zones.
• • n zone A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by one plane.
  • n zone A belt on the surface of the earth or of the celestial sphere included between two parallels to the equator.
  • n zone In phytogeography, a vegetation ring or belt: referring more directly to the plant-content itself or to the areas marked by œcological difference. By Humboldt, and now with general consent, but with difference in application, used of circumpolar, roughly longitudinal belts of plant forms, which follow isothermal lines more nearly than parallels, the controlling factor being temperature. These are sometimes termed zones of latitude. See life zone.
  • n zone One of the different levels of a shaft-furnace, characterized according to the reaction which takes place in it: as, the zone of fusion, reduction-zone, etc.
  • n zone Transition climate, in which the variation is greater than 15° C. and less than 20° C.
  • n zone Land climate, in which the variation is greater than 20° C. and less than 40° C.
  • n zone Extreme continental climate in which the variations are greater than 40° C. Koeppen's climatic zones are arbitrary divisions based upon temperature considerations as follows: A tropical zone having an average temperature of over 68° F.
  • n zone A subtropical zone which has the same temperature during 4 to 11 months.
  • n zone A constant temperate zone with a temperature between 50 and 68° F.
  • n zone A hot summer temperate zone which has an average temperature that sometimes falls below 50° F.
  • n zone A moderate summer and cold winter temperate zone with a temperature between 50 and 68° F.
  • n zone A cold zone with a prevailing temperature below 50° F.
  • n zone A polar zone with an average temperature always below 50° F. Wojeikoff's climatic zones are distinguished according to the quantity and character of the rainfall. Twelve climatic regions are shown upon his maps as follows: A zone of ocean trades with very rare rainfalls.
  • n zone A region of equatorial rains, including the zone of calms.
  • n zone A region of rain which prevails throughout the year.
  • n zone A subtropical zone with rainless summers.
  • n zone A zone of the fall and winter rains of middle latitudes.
  • n zone The zone of summer rainfall of middle latitudes.
  • n zone The zone of equal distribution of rain throughout all seasons.
  • n zone A polar region with light snows in winter.
  • n zone Deserts and semi-deserts with an annual precipitation less than 250 mm. (10 in.).
  • n zone (10) The region of the Australian monsoons.
  • n zone (11) The region of the Asiatic monsoons.
  • n zone (12) The region of the African monsoons. Climatic zones in altitude correspond to climatic zones in latitude and are marked by the retardation of the dates of the development of vegetation; this retardation amounts to about ten days for every 300 meters of increase in altitude in the Alps, or four days for 800 meters in France.
  • n zone that their southward distribution is governed by the mean temperature of a brief period covering the hottest part of the year. Upon this basis Merriam has made the following transcontinental divisions for North America:
  • n zone Tropical region (not subdivided latitudinally).
  • n zone Upon the basis of humidity, the transition zone is subdivided into the Alleghanian area, the arid transition area, and the Pacific Coast transition area; the Upper Austral into the Carolinian and Upper Sonoran areas; and the Lower Austral into the Austroriparian (Louisianian) and the Lower Sonoran areas. See phrases under area.
  • n zone A bed or series of beds in any geological formation characterized by certain fossils or groups of fossils: nearly equivalent in meaning to life-horizon.
  • n zone A girdle or belt worn as an article of dress.
  • n zone A belt or band round anything, as a stripe of different color or substance round an object; figuratively, any circumscribing or surrounding line, real or imaginary; a circuitous line, path, or course; an inclosing circle.
  • n zone Specifically, in geography, one of five arbitrary divisions of the earth's surface, bounded by lines parallel to the equator, each named according to its prevailing temperature; a climatic belt. These climatic zones are
  • n zone Any continuous tract or belt differing in character from adjoining tracts; a definite area or region within which some distinguishing circumstances exist or are established: as, the zones of natural history, distinguished by special forms of vegetable or animal life; a zone of free trade; a free zone on the border of a country or between adjoining states. Naturalists formerly divided the sea-bottom into five zones in accordance with the depth of water covering each, which was supposed to determine its fauna and flora. They were called respectively littoral, circumlittoral, median, inframedian, and abyssal. Later researches have proved that the assumed facts were to a great extent erroneous, organisms supposed to be confined to the littoral zone having been found at the greatest depths. In geology zone has nearly the same meaning as horizon. A stratum, or a group of strata, may be characterized by the presence of a certain assemblage of fossils, or by one particular fossil; in such cases the most abundant or typical fossil may give a name to the subdivision in which it occurs, which will then be designated as the zone of that particular species. Thns, the Lower and the Middle Lias have together been divided into twelve zones, each characterized by the presence of a certain species of ammonite: as, the “zone of the Arietites (Ammonites) raricostatus,” etc.
  • n zone In mathematics, a part of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes.
  • n zone In crystallography, a series of planes having their lines of intersection parallel.
  • zone To encircle with or as if with a zone; bring within a zone, or divide into zones or belts, in any sense.
  • zone To be formed into zones.
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• Interesting fact: The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• • n Zone zōn a girdle, a belt, a stripe of different colour or substance round anything: one of the five great belts into which the surface of the earth is divided: any continuous tract with particular characteristics
  • v.t Zone to encircle, as with a zone
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• Joe Paterno

  

  “Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
• Stan Dale

  

  “Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.”
• John F. Dodge

  

  “There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.”
• Italo Calvino

  

  “The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
• Lucinda Basset

  

  “You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”
• Jean Baudrillard

  

  “Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”

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