Zone
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Places
France- Any of several divisions (Free, Northern, Occupied, and Southern) during the German occupation of France during World War II
Germany
- The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic RepublicGerman Democratic RepublicThe German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...
Greece
- Zone (Thrace) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city in western ThraceThraceThrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...
India
- ZoneZoningZoning is a device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another...
, a country subdivision, which further contains wards
Italy
- Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Brescia
Korea
- The Korean Demilitarized ZoneKorean Demilitarized ZoneThe Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. The DMZ cuts the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, crossing the 38th parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and...
Ukraine
- Zone of alienationZone of alienationThe Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone, which is sometimes referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Alienation, or simply The Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone, which is sometimes referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of...
, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
Geography
- Frigid zone, a geographical zone on earth
- Hardiness zoneHardiness zoneA hardiness zone is a geographically defined area in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by climatic conditions, including its ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone...
, a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing - Temperate zone, a geographical zone on earth
- Torrid zoneTorrid ZoneTorrid Zone is a 1940 adventure film starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.-Plot summary:Steve Case has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation...
, a geographical zone on earth - Zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
- Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
- ZoningZoningZoning is a device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another...
, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
Entertainment
- The Zone (ITV)The Zone (ITV)The Zone is the name given to the strand of shopping and gaming programming on ITV1 and a television channel available on Freeview. The programme is an interactive home shopping and gaming show, featuring items from QVC up for sale, with gaming segments from Jackpot247...
, a British TV programming strand on ITV1 - Zone (band)Zone (band)Zone was an all-female pop rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999. Although it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol"...
, an all-female J-pop group - Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
- Zone (album)Zone (album)Zone is a the third and final studio album by Australian music group Southern Sons. The album was released in Australia in 1995. The album was re-released in 1996 with the bonus tracks, and was also released in the Australian iTunes Store as a digital download in 2010.-Track listing:# "Zone" –...
, an album by Southern Sons - "Zone", a poem by Guillaume ApollinaireGuillaume ApollinaireWilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
- Zone RecordsZone RecordsZone Records is the personal record label on which DJ Icey releases all of his music, along with other artists.-Discography:*Zone 001 DJ Icee Energy Traxx Volume 1*Zone 002 DJ Icey Encyclopedia Funktanica*Zone 003 DJ Icee Beats-A-Rockin...
, a record label - Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
- The Zone (YTV), a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
- The Zone (album), an album by Enter Shikari
- The Zone (film)The Zone (film)The Zone is a Swedish short film directed by photographer Esaias Baitel. Baitel lived in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers during the 1970s and, in this short film, he documented what was later to become neo-Nazism.-External links:* article on the movie...
, a Swedish short film from the 1970s - The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
- Zones (novel)Zones (novel)Zones is a 1997 young-adult science fiction novel by Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes. It follows the story of Jenny who receives a phone call from the year 1965.-Background:...
, a 1997 novel by Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes - In the ZoneIn the ZoneIn the Zone is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, released on November 16, 2003, by Jive Records. Following the end of the Dream Within a Dream Tour in July 2002 and her break-up with Justin Timberlake, Spears announced she would take a six-month break from her...
, Britney Spears' 4th album- In the Zone (DVD)In the Zone (DVD)In the Zone is the fifth video release by singer Britney Spears. Released by Jive Records on April 6, 2004, it accompanied the album of the same name. The DVD contains her ABC concert special Britney Spears: In the Zone, as well as footage from live performances to promote the album...
, released in connection with the album
- In the Zone (DVD)
- In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'NeillEugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
- "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits), TV episode
- In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's RainbowGravity's RainbowGravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest...
- Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
- The Zone, the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie StalkerStalker (film)Stalker is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic...
Sport
- The Zone (Michigan)The Zone (Michigan)The Zone is a student cheering section for the University of Michigan women's volleyball team that emphasizes high levels of spirit and sportsmanship...
, the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section - Zone defenseZone defenseZone defense is a type of defense, used in team sports, which is the alternative to man-to-man defense; instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team, each defensive player is given an area known as a "zone" to cover....
, in basketball - Zoning (Australian rules football)Zoning (Australian rules football)In Australian rules football, zoning refers to a system whereby a given area, either region or lower-level football league, is reserved exclusively for one club....
, a method of allocating players to clubs - The Zone, a brand of gymnastic leotardLeotardA leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso but leaves the legs free. It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard ....
Technology
- DNS zoneDNS zoneA DNS zone is a portion of the global Domain Name System namespace for which administrative responsibility has been delegated.-Definition:...
, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System - Solaris Zones, a feature of the Solaris operating system, also known as Solaris Containers
- Fibre Channel zoningFibre Channel zoningIn storage networking, Fibre Channel zoning is the partitioning of a Fibre Channel fabric into smaller subsets to restrict interference, add security, and to simplify management. While a SAN makes available several virtual disks , each system connected to the SAN should only be allowed access to a...
, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems - A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVACHVACHVAC refers to technology of indoor or automotive environmental comfort. HVAC system design is a major subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer...
) - Zone, a short name for DVD region codeDVD region codeDVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
- One of several terms used for a region in region-based memory managementRegion-based memory managementIn computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also called a zone, arena, or memory context, is a collection of allocated objects that can be efficiently deallocated all at once...
Other uses
- Zone (vestment)Zone (vestment)The Zone ; occurs in Homer as a woman's girdle and can even refer to her waist itself. Classical Greek had a verb put a girdle around the loins, or "gird one's self."...
, a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Zone dietZone dietThe Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by biochemist Barry Sears. It advocates consuming calories from carbohydrates, protein, and fat in a balanced ratio.- Theory :...
, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate - Zone SystemZone systemThe Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer. Adams described how the Zone System was developed: "I take this opportunity to restate that the Zone System is not an invention of mine; it is a codification...
, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development - Zone Coopérative de l'Université LavalZone Coopérative de l'Université LavalCoopérative de l'Université Laval is a cooperative involved in the sale of products for the community of Université Laval....
, a university cooperative in the province of Quebec, Canada - Erogenous zoneErogenous zoneAn erogenous zone is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity, the stimulation of which may result in the production of erotic sensations or sexual excitement.People have erogenous zones all over their bodies, but which areas are more sensitive than others vary...
, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating - The zone, or flowFlow (psychology)Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of...
, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity - ChronozoneChronozoneA chronozone or chron is a slice of time that begins at a given identifiable event and ends at another. In the fossil record such tracer events are usually keyed to disappearance of a widely distributed and rapidly changing species or the appearance of such a species in the geological record...
, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval - Time zoneTime zoneA time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...