Zone

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Zone or The Zone or In the Zone may refer to:

Computing

• A region in region-based memory management
• DNS zone, a portion of computer network namespace
• Fibre Channel zoning, a method of network partitioning
• Solaris Zones, a virtualization feature of the Solaris operating system

Entertainment

Places

• Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
• Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
• Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
• Zones of Nepal, administrative divisions

Geography

• Exclusion zone, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited
• 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

Literature

• In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'Neill
• In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
• "Zone", a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
• Zone (play), a French language play written by Canadian Marcel Dubé
• Zones (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns

Science and technology

• 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, a short name for DVD region code
• Zone 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

• The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
• Zone defense, in team sports
• Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs

Other uses

• Time zone
• The zone, or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
• Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Zone, a girdle worn by a woman around the waist, or the waist itself. From the ancient Greek but in common literary usage in the nineteenth century, e.g. Richard Westmacott's sculpture A Nymph unclasping her Zone.
• Zone pricing, based on the location of the buyer
• Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil and agricultural placement
• Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
• da share z0ne, a satirical social media account

See also

• La Zona (disambiguation)