Zone

Zone (from Greek ζωνη) originally meant a belt, worn in various forms by ancient Greek men and women, as in the Orthodox priestly Zone (vestment), later extended by analogy to the idea of dividing the earth into latitudinal belts or climes. It now may mean a general region or domain in many contexts.

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

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 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 first available as part of Solaris 10
• 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
• "The Zone", a brand of gymnastic leotard
• Zone defense, in basketball
• Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
• The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
• Zone system, a method of taking black-and-white pictures
• Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church