ZONE
\zˈə͡ʊn], \zˈəʊn], \z_ˈəʊ_n]\
Definitions of ZONE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
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separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
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an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
By Princeton University
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any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
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separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
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an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To girdle; to encircle.
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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.
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A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.
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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.
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Any circular or ring-shaped area within which the street-car companies make no differences of fare.
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In the United States parcel-post system, any of the areas about any point of shipment for which but one rate of postage is charged for a parcel post shipment from that point. The rate increases from within outwards. The first zone includes the unit of area " (a quadrangle 30 minutes square)" in which the place of shipment is situated and the 8 contiguous units; the outer limits of the second to the seventh zones, respectively, are approximately 150, 300, 600, 1000, 1400, and 1800 miles from the point of shipment; the eighth zone includes all units of area outside the seventh zone.
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A girdle; a cincture.
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One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
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A band or stripe extending around a body.
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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.
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A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
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Circuit; circumference.
By Oddity Software
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To girdle; to encircle.
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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.
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A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.
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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.
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Any circular or ring-shaped area within which the street-car companies make no differences of fare.
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In the United States parcel-post system, any of the areas about any point of shipment for which but one rate of postage is charged for a parcel post shipment from that point. The rate increases from within outwards. The first zone includes the unit of area " (a quadrangle 30 minutes square)" in which the place of shipment is situated and the 8 contiguous units; the outer limits of the second to the seventh zones, respectively, are approximately 150, 300, 600, 1000, 1400, and 1800 miles from the point of shipment; the eighth zone includes all units of area outside the seventh zone.
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A girdle; a cincture.
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One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
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A band or stripe extending around a body.
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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.
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A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
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Circuit; circumference.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the five great belts into which the surface of the earth is divided with regard to climate: including the torrid zone, which extends 23Ëš28' on each side of the equator; the two temperate zones, between the tropics and the polar circles, which are 23Ëš 27' from the poles; and the two frigid zones, between th epolar circles and the poles; an area or region distinct from adjoining parts; as, during the World War, Germany established a danger zone for submarine warfare; in the United States parcel post system, one of the areas into which the country is divided with regard to rates of postage.
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Zoned.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A belt or girdle.
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One of five divisions of the earth's surface, bounded by lines parallel to the equator and taking their names from the prevailing climate.
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A belt, band, stripe, etc., distinguished by any characteristic.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An area characterized by a similar fauna or flora; a stratum or set of beds characterized by a typical fossil or set of fossils.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A belt or girdle, a circular band differing from the surface carrying it. boundary z. The part of the medulla of the kidney next the cortex. In it the groups of blood vessels and uriniferous tubules alternate. ciliary z. A thin, transparent membrane which begins with a serrated margin on the ciliary processes, and extends inward nearly to the equator of the lens, where it is intimately connected with the anterior capsule. Microscopically it consists of slight, sharply defined fibers connected by a delicate intercellular substance. epileptogenic z. A z. comprising certain motor tracts in the cerebral cortex artificial irritation of which gives rise to epileptoid convulsions. hysterogenic z's. Hypersensitive areas in various portions of the body pressure on which produces symptoms of hysteria, intermediate z. Of Guillard, the active z. of tissue immediately surrounding the central region of parenchyma in the stem of monocotyledonous plants. internal z. of the lenticular nucleus. A z. adjacent to the internal capsule, with which it is connected by transverse white fibers, z's of the lenticular nucleus. Three laminae consisting of masses of gray matter separated by white bundles (medullary laminae). z's of the uterus. Three z's into which R. Barnes divides the inner surface of the gravid uterus, with reference to the implantation of the placenta, designated the fundal z., the meridional z., and the cervical z. z. of Zinn. See ciliary z. [Gr., zone, From zonnunai, to gird.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] A girdle;-one of the five great divisions of the earth with respect, to latitude and temperature, viz., the torrid zone between the two tropical circles; two temperate zones between the polar circles and the poles;-the portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes;-a band or stripe running round any object;-a band or areaencircling any thing;- circuit; circumference.
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