zone
区,区域,地区,地带
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Definitions
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- : any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
- : Geography. any of five great divisions of the earth's surface, bounded by lines parallel to the equator and named according to the prevailing temperature.Compare North Frigid Zone, North Temperate Zone, South Frigid Zone, South Temperate Zone, Torrid Zone.
- : Biogeography. an area characterized by a particular set of organisms, whose presence is determined by environmental conditions, as an altitudinal belt on a mountain.
- : Geology. a horizon.
- : Geometry. a part of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes.
- : a specific district, area, etc., within which a uniform charge is made for transportation, mail delivery, or other service.
- : the total number of available railroad terminals within a given circumference around a given shipping center.
- : an area or district in a city or town under special restrictions as to the type, size, purpose, etc., of existing or proposed buildings.
- : time zone.
- : Also called postal delivery zone. any of the numbered districts into which a city or metropolitan area was formerly divided for expediting the sorting and delivery of mail.
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Examples
Across global fire zones, “One common thread is that Indigenous stewardship is something that we can learn from,” said Greenpeace’s Brindis.
In other words, larger dead zones would have made for smaller life zones.
She found some zones of closely spaced wide dark bands in the tusks that might indicate stress and seasons of torpor.
I sat down as you do when you go to a war zone, and I had to write a letter to … it literally says “Just in case.”
As embryos, they still had four zones of germline gene expression, but the subsets of genes expressed in each zone had changed.
Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone.
By drawing boundaries against wrongful conduct, law provides a protective zone of freedom within those boundaries.
South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
Among the scores of bystanders watching their small town turn into war zone was a Marine veteran who was close with Stone.
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
When well stained, a delicate hyaline peripheral zone can be distinguished.