Zone

Zone or The Zone may refer to:

Places

Climate and altitude zones

  • Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
  • 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 legendary geographical zone on Earth too hot to cross

Military zones

Place-names

Other places

Apparel

  • Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Zone, a girdle worn by a woman around the waist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Games

Literature

Groups and labels

Albums

Songs

Television

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • 1280 The Zone, the branding of the American radio station KZNS (AM)
  • A Nymph unclasping her Zone, a sculpture by Richard Westmacott
  • The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Computing

Science and technology

  • Zone (convex polytope), in geometry/algorithmic, a kind of convex polytope
  • Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space
  • Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
  • Erogenous zone, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation
  • Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
  • Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
  • Zone diet, a diet involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat, and carbohydrate
  • Zone plate, a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character
  • Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

Sports

Other uses

See also

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