Zone
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Zone may refer to:
In geography:
- One of five geographical zones of the earth:
- The torrid zone
- The north and south temperate zones
- The north and south frigid zones
- Hardiness zone, in gardening and other agriculture a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
- "The zone" (die (Ost)Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
- Zone (BS), a town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
- Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
- Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
- Zone, in zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
- Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
In entertainment and literature:
- In the Zone, Britney Spears' 4th album
- In the Zone (DVD), released in connection with the album
- In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'Neill
- "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits), TV episode
- In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
- The Zone, a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
- Zone (book), a three-act drama by Marcel Dubé
- "Zone" (poem), a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
- Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
- Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
- "The Zone", the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker
- The Zone (Enter Shikari), an album
- The Zone (film), a Swedish short film from the 1970s
- Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
- Zone Records, a record label
- The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
In sports:
- Zone defense, in basketball
- "The Zone", a brand of gymnastic leotard
- The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
- Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs
In technology:
- DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
- Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
- Solaris Zones, one component of the Solaris Containers virtualization feature
- A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
- Zone, a short name for DVD Region code
Other:
- Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
- "The zone", or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
- Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
- Zone system, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development
- Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church

