Zone

Zone (from Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of "ζώνη" - zōnē, "belt, girdle"^[1]) may refer to:

Places

France

• Free Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II The German occupation of France during World War II occurred between May 1940 and December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation of hostilities. An armistice was signed on 22 June 1940 at Compiègne. Under its terms, the north and west of France were occupied by the
• Northern Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II The German occupation of France during World War II occurred between May 1940 and December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation of hostilities. An armistice was signed on 22 June 1940 at Compiègne. Under its terms, the north and west of France were occupied by the
• Occupied Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II The German occupation of France during World War II occurred between May 1940 and December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation of hostilities. An armistice was signed on 22 June 1940 at Compiègne. Under its terms, the north and west of France were occupied by the
• Southern Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II The German occupation of France during World War II occurred between May 1940 and December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation of hostilities. An armistice was signed on 22 June 1940 at Compiègne. Under its terms, the north and west of France were occupied by the

Germany

• The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic The German Democratic Republic - GDR was the socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied-occupied capital city. The German Democratic Republic, which consisted geographically of northeast Germany rather than all of eastern Germany, had an area of 107,771 km2. (41,610 mi.2),

Italy

• Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Brescia

Korea

• The Korean Demilitarized Zone The 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 the east end lying north of it. It is 250 kilometres

Ukraine

• Zone of alienation The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Exclusion, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone is the 30 km/19 mi exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Geographically, it includes northernmost parts of Kyivs'ka oblast' and Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' of, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster

Geography

• Frigid zone Earth's polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles also known as frigid zones. The North Pole and South Pole being the centers, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on the Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica. Polar sea ice is currently diminishing, possibly as a result of, a geographical zone on earth
• Hardiness zone A 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 (see the scale on the right or the table below). The zones were first developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
• Temperate zone In geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally mild, rather than extreme hot or cold. But in continental areas, such as central North America the variations between summer and winter can be extreme. In regions traditionally, a geographical zone on earth
• Torrid zone The tropics is a region of the Earth by the equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately 23°26' N latitude and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23°26' (23.4°) S latitude. The tropics are also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone (see geographical zone), a geographical zone on earth
• Zone pricing Geographical pricing, in marketing, is the practice of modifying a basic list price based on the geographical location of the buyer. It is intended to reflect the costs of shipping to different locations, a geographical area in which charges are constant
• Zones (permaculture) Zoning in permaculture design refers to a method of ensuring that elements are correctly placed. Zones are numbered from 0 to 5, and can be thought of as a series of concentric rings moving out from a centre point—where human activity and need for attention is most concentrated—to where there is no need for intervention at all, a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
• Zoning Zoning 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. Zoning may be use-based , or it may regulate building height, lot coverage, and similar characteristics,, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
• [zong],in Henan of China,a place of micro-face

Entertainment

• Zone (band) ZONE was an all-female pop rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999. Though it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all female band. ZONE has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" . The band was started by Studio RunTime and released their first single under the major record label Sony Records, "Good, an all-female J-pop group
• Zone (guitar) It has a slightly lighter and smaller body than previous Fender basses. The 2004 models were made of solid Mahogany and Walnut or Alder and Maple timbers and have a pair of Zone humbucking pickups powered by an 18V active 3-band preamp. The model appears to be designed to appeal to adventurous and innovative players, rather than traditionalists, a Fender bass guitar model
• "Zone" (poem), by Guillaume Apollinaire Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, writer and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother
• Zone Records Categories: American record labels | Electronic music record labels | Vanity record labels, a record label
• Zone.com MSN Games is an online games site devoted primarily to casual games, both stand-alone and multi-player online games. Games are available in free on-line versions, trial versions, and full feature pay-to-play versions. Stand alone games can be played on the Web, or downloaded to a personal computer or smartphone. Multi-player games require either, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
• The Zone The Zone is the flagship weekday afternoon programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV. It airs between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET in Canada. It consists of a short segment hosted by a personality formerly called a PJ that airs in the space between the actual television shows, often in lieu of commercials, a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
• The Zone (Enter Shikari) The Zone is a compilation CD by Enter Shikari. It was released on November 12, 2007. It was announced October 1, 2007 by one of the members of Ambush Reality. The compilation features b-sides, demos and a remix by Rou's side-project, Routron 5000. The first few thousand have 2 hidden tracks, these were put on by mistake. Three tracks are from the, an album
• The Zone (film) The Zone was a short Swedish 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, a Swedish short film from the 1970s
• The Zone (TV series) ITV Play was a 24/7 participation television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. The ITV Play name continued on the ITV Network until December 2007, a 2007 interactive game show
• Zones (novel), a 1997 novel by Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes
• In the Zone In the Zone is the fourth studio album by American singer Britney Spears, released in late 2003 . It debuted at number one in the United States and France, breaking Spears' own record of having her first three albums debut at number one. While album sales were fewer in comparison to her previous albums, it generated three worldwide number-one hits:, Britney Spears' 4th album
  • In the Zone (DVD) In the Zone is Britney Spears' fifth DVD collection, which was released on April 6, 2004. The performances in the DVD were dubbed by the recordings featured in the album, released in connection with the album
• In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include
• "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits) "In the Zone" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on February 20, 1998, during the fourth season, TV episode
• In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973
• Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series released by Sega starring and named after its mascot character, Sonic The Hedgehog. The series began in 1991 with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, in addition to an 8-bit version of the game for the Master System and Game Gear formats. Sonic was responsible for turning Sega games
• The Zone, the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker 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. It depicts an expedition led by the Stalker (guide) Alexander Kaidanovsky to bring his two clients to a site known as "the Zone", which has the supposed potential to

Sport

• 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. Founded in a period of low attendance for the program, this determined group rejuvenates the support that characterizes Michigan fans, the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
• Zone defense Zone 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, or a "zone", to cover, in basketball
• 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 leotard A leotard is a unisex 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 , about whom the song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" was written

Technology

• DNS zone The DNS namespace is defined by RFC 1034, "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities" and RFC 1035, "Domain Names - Implementation and Specification". It is divided in hierarchical tree-like fashion into cascading lower-level domains that are ordered as a reverse-prioritized concatenation of names, each level separated by a full, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
• Solaris Zones Solaris Containers is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology first made available in 2005 as part of Solaris 10, one component of the Solaris Containers virtualization feature
• Fibre Channel zoning In 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 controlled subset of the LUNs. Zoning applies only, 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 (HVAC HVAC is an acronym that stands for the closely related functions of "Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning"—the 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 code DVD region codes are a DRM technique designed to allow motion picture studios to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region. DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played
• One of several terms used for a region in region-based memory management In 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. Like stack allocation, regions facilitate allocation and

Other uses

• Zone (vestment) The Zone ; occurs in Homer as (Greek: ζώνην, zonēn) a woman's girdle and can even refer to her waist itself. Classical Greek had a verb (Greek: ζώννυσθαι, zonusthai) put a girdle around the loins, or "gird one's self.", a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Zone diet The 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, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
• Zone System The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1939–1940. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development
• Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval Coopérative 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 zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
• The zone, or flow 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 fields, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity

References

1. ^ ζώνη, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library

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