Zone

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Zone or The Zone may refer to:

Places

Climate and altitude zones

  • Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
  • Frigid zone, a geographical zone on Earth
  • Hardiness 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 zone, a legendary geographical zone on Earth too hot to cross

Military zones

  • Zone, any of the divisions of France during the World War II German occupation
  • Zone, any of the divisions of Germany during the post-World War II Allied occupation
  • DMZ or DZ or demilitarized zone, an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel
  • Green Zone, a military zone in Baghdad, Iraq
  • Korean Demilitarized Zone

Place-names

  • Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
  • Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, commonly known as "The Zone", a self-declared commune and partially autonomous intentional community in Seattle, Washington
  • Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
  • Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
  • List of zones of Ethiopia, administrative divisions
  • The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
  • Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval, a university cooperative in Quebec, Canada
  • Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
  • Zones of Nepal, administrative divisions

Other places

  • Exclusion zone, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited
  • International zone, an extraterritorial political zone

Apparel

  • Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Zone, a girdle worn by a woman around the waist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • The Zone (2003 film), a Swedish short documentary
  • The Zone (2011 film), an American thriller
  • Transformers: Zone, a 1990 OVA

Games

  • Zone (video games), an area within a virtual environment
  • Zone.com, alternate name for MSN Games
  • Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games

Literature

  • Zone (magazine), an Argentina-based forum for international poetry and prose
  • Zone (play), a French language play written by Canadian Marcel Dubé
  • "Zone", a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Zones (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns

Music

Groups and labels

  • Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
  • Zones (band), a British punk band
  • Zone Records, a record label

Albums

  • Zone (Southern Sons album), 1996
  • Zone (TVXQ album), 2024
  • The Zone (Enter Shikari album), 2007
  • The Zone (Paul Rutherford, Torsten Müller, and Harris Eisenstadt album), 2006
  • Zones (album), 1983, by Hawkwind
  • Zone (EP), 2023, by Jihyo

Songs

Television

  • The Zone (Australian TV program), a 1990s Australian video games news and reviews television program
  • The Zone (British game show), a 2007 interactive game show
  • The Zone (New Zealand TV channel), a former TV channel
  • The Zone (ITV), a British teleshopping and interactive gaming TV channel
  • The Zone (YTV), a Canadian television programming block

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • 1280 The Zone, the branding of the American radio station KZNS (AM)
  • A Nymph unclasping her Zone, a sculpture by Richard Westmacott
  • The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Computing

Science and technology

  • Zone (convex polytope), in geometry/algorithmic, a kind of convex polytope
  • Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space
  • Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
  • Erogenous zone, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation
  • Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
  • Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
  • Zone diet, a diet involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat, and carbohydrate
  • Zone plate, a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character
  • Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

Sports

  • Zone defense, in team sports
  • Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs

Other uses

  • Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
  • Zone, a short name for DVD region code
  • Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil and agricultural placement
  • Da share z0ne, a satirical social media account
  • Flow (psychology), or "the zone", a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
  • Time zone
  • Zone pricing, based on the location of the buyer
  • Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
  • TheZone, summer camp of Oorah
  • Zone (surname), surname

See also

  • AutoZone
  • Combat Zone (disambiguation)
  • In the Zone (disambiguation)
  • La Zona (disambiguation)
  • Zon (disambiguation)
  • Region (mathematics)
  • ZoneAlarm
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