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Location and Zone Definitions

Location

The act or process of locating
Location of the lost hikers took two days.

Zone

An area or a region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic.

Location

A place where something is or could be located; a site.

Zone

A section of an area or territory established for a specific purpose, as a section of a city restricted to a particular type of building, enterprise, or activity
A residential zone.

Location

A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot
Filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert.
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Zone

An area of a given radius within which a uniform rate is charged, as for transportation or shipping.

Location

A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.

Zone

Any of the five regions of the surface of the earth that are loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude, including the tropics, the North and South Temperate Zones, and the North and South Polar Regions.

Location

A particular point or place in physical space.

Zone

A similar division on any other planet.
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Location

An act of locating.

Zone

(Mathematics) A portion of a sphere bounded by the intersections of two parallel planes with the sphere.

Location

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

Zone

(Ecology) An area characterized by distinct physical conditions and supporting a particular type of flora and fauna.

Location

(legal) A leasing on rent.

Zone

(Anatomy) A ringlike or cylindrical growth or structure.

Location

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

Zone

(Geology) A region or stratum distinguished by composition or content.

Location

The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc

Zone

(Sports) A zone defense.

Location

(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

Zone

(Archaic) A belt or girdle.

Location

The act or process of locating.

Zone

To divide or designate into zones.

Location

Situation; place; locality.

Zone

To surround or encircle.

Location

That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

Zone

Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).

Location

A leasing on rent.

Zone

Any given region or area of the world.

Location

A point or extent in space

Zone

A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.

Location

The act of putting something in a certain place or location

Zone

A band or area of growth encircling anything.
A zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent

Location

A determination of the location of something;
He got a good fix on the target

Zone

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zone

(crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zone

The strike zone.
That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.

Zone

(ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.

Zone

(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.

Zone

A high-performance phase or period.
I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.

Zone

A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

Zone

(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

Zone

A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).

Zone

A belt or girdle.

Zone

(geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

Zone

A frustum of a sphere.

Zone

A circuit; a circumference.

Zone

(transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.

Zone

(transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).
This area was zoned for industrial use.

Zone

To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)

Zone

To girdle or encircle.

Zone

A girdle; a cincture.
An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.

Zone

One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.

Zone

The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

Zone

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zone

A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zone

Circuit; circumference.

Zone

An area or part of a region characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc.

Zone

A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.

Zone

The aggregate of stations, in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a shipment of traffic originates.

Zone

Any area to or within which a shipment or transportation cost is constant;

Zone

To girdle; to encircle.

Zone

A circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features

Zone

Any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

Zone

An area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

Zone

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Zone

Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Zone

Separate or apportion into sections;
Partition a room off

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