Zone

Zone may refer to:

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 Republic

Greece

• Zone (Thrace) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city in western Thrace

India

• Zones are administrative divisions of India composed of multiple states, which serve primarily an advisory role

Italy

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

Korea

• The Korean Demilitarized Zone

Ukraine

• Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster

Geography

• 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 geographical zone on earth
• Zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
• Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
• Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation

Entertainment

• The Zone (ITV), a British teleshopping and interactive gaming TV channel
• Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
• Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
• Zone (album), an album by Southern Sons
• "Zone", a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
• Zone (play), a French language play written by Canadian Marcel Dubé.
• Zone Records, 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), a Swedish short film from the 1970s
• The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
• Zones (novel), a 1997 novel by Damien Broderick & Rorey Barns
• 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
• Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
• The Zone, the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Mathematics

• Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
• Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space.

Sport

• The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
• Zone defense, in basketball, football etc.
• Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs
• The Zone, a brand of gymnastic leotard

Technology

• DNS zone, 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 zoning, 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)
• Zone, a short name for DVD region code
• One of several terms used for a region in region-based memory management

Other uses

• Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• 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 Coopérative de l'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, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
• Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
• Time zone

See also

• La Zona (disambiguation)