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The word 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). In Classical Antiquity, this was also extended to cover the idea of dividing the earth into latitudinal belts or Climes. Now the word may refer to a general region or domain in many contexts, including:
  • Zone (BS), a town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
  • Zone defense, in basketball
  • Zoning, in urban planning
  • Plant hardiness zone, in gardening and other agriculture, tells people how the climate in their area affects plants. A gardener will tend to refer to this simply as, for example, "Zone 6", with the number changing according to his location.
  • DVD region code
  • Solaris Zones (also called Solaris Containers) is a virtualization feature first available with Solaris 10
  • DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
  • Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
  • Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
  • Zone system, a method of taking black-and-white pictures
  • Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
  • ZONE, an all-female J-pop group.
  • MSN Games, once known by its domain name, Zone.com, is an online video game site created by Microsoft.
  • The zone, a mental state in which the person is fully immersed in some activity.
  • A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
  • One of five geographical zones of the earth, being the tropical or torrid zone, the north and south temperate zones, and the north and south frigid zones.
  • Zone Records, a record label.
  • Level names on early Sonic the Hedgehog games.
  • Zone, a three-act drama by Marcel Dubé.
  • The zone (die (Ost)Zone in German) deragotary for German Democratic Republic.
The Zone (Greek: ζώνη, zonê lit. belt) is a liturgical belt worn as a vestment by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches.
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The seven climes (klima, plural klimata, meaning "inclination", referring to the angle between the axis of the celestial sphere and the horizon) was a notion of dividing the Earth into zones in Classical Antiquity.
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Zone (pronunciation: TSO-neh or ZO-neh) is a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

Its coat of arms is picturesque and has three peaks, each of them as a rock sledge over it. It is covered with green pine trees on the bottom.
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Zone defense is a type of defense used in sports which is the alternative to man-to-man defense; instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team, each defensive player is given an area, or a "zone", to cover.
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Zoning is a term used in urban planning for a system of land-use regulation in various parts of the world, including North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
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hardiness zone is a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by temperature hardiness, or ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone.
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Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is a virtualization feature first available with Solaris 10. This is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology.
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A DNS zone is a portion of the global DNS namespace. This namespace is defined by RFC 1034, "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities" and RFC 1035, ""Domain Names - Implementation and Specification", and is laid out in a tree structure from right to left, such that divisions of the
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The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by Barry Sears. It advocates balancing protein and carbohydrate in 3:4 ratios. It is not primarily a weight-loss "diet", though it can be used quite successfully for that purpose [1].
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An erogenous zone is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity and stimulation of which normally results in sexual response. Depending on the individual, this could include any and all areas of the body, but the majority of men and women have common erogenous zones.
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The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1941. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they
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For other uses, see zoning.
In storage networking, Fibre Channel zoning is the partitioning of a Fibre Channel fabric into smaller subsets to restrict interference, add security, and to simplify management.
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ZONE is a J-Pop band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999, that went on to become a hit in 2000 with their single GOOD DAYS. Their most famous song is Secret Base (
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J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians, and was coined by the Japanese media, to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians.
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MSN Games (also known as Zone.com - formerly known as The Village, Internet Gaming Zone, MSN Gaming Zone, and MSN Games by Zone.com
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The Zone is the flagship weekday afternoon programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV. It airs between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET in Canada and is familiar to many Canadians who have grown up watching YTV since the early 1990s.
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HVAC may also stand for High-voltage alternating current
HVAC (pronounced either "H-V-A-C" or, occasionally, "aitch-vak") is an initialism/acronym that stands for "heating, ventilation, and air conditioning".
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tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 23°30' (23.5°) N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23°30' (23.5°) S latitude.
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temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally mild, rather than extreme hot or cold. However, a temperate climate can have very unpredictable weather.
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polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles also known as frigid zones. The North Pole and South Pole being the centers, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on the Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica.
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Zone Records is the personal record label in which DJ Icey releases all of his music.

Discography

  • Zone 001 DJ Icee Energy Traxx Volume 1
  • Zone 002 DJ Icey Encyclopedia Funktanica
  • Zone 003 DJ Icee Beats-A-Rockin
  • Zone 004 DJ Icee Tricks Theme

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Sonic the Hedgehog (series)

Sonic the Hedgehog
Developers: Sega/Sonic Team
Debut game: Sonic the Hedgehog
Predecessor: Alex Kidd series (1986-1990)

The Sonic the Hedgehog series
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Playwright, one of the dozen or so most important figures in Canadian theatre history, Marcel Dubé was born into a family of eight children in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 3, 1930. He has produced over 300 works for radio, television and the stage.
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German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR; commonly and informally known in English as East Germany
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