Zone

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

Geography

Place names

• Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
• Zone (Thrace) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city

Zones

• Any of the divisions of France during the World War II German occupation
• The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
• The Korean Demilitarized Zone
• Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
• Zones of Nepal, administrative divisions
• Administrative divisions of India
• Exclusion zone, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited
• Frigid zone, a geographical zone on Earth
• The Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq
• Hardiness zone, a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
• International Zone, an extraterritorial political zone
• Temperate zone, a geographical zone on Earth
• Torrid zone, a geographical zone on Earth
• 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
• Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval, a university cooperative in Quebec, Canada

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

Science and technology

• Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
• Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space
• A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
• Zone, a short name for DVD region code
• 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
• Erogenous zone, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation
• The zone, or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
• Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
• Zone diet, involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate

Sport

• 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
• The Zone, a brand of gymnastic leotard

Books

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

Games

• Zone (video games), an area within a virtual environment
• Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online site
• Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games

Film

• The Zone (2003 film), a Swedish short documentary
• The Zone (2011 film), an American thriller
• The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Television

• The Zone (ITV), a British teleshopping and interactive gaming TV channel
• The Zone (Channel 9), a 1990s Australian video games news and reviews show
• The Zone (YTV), a Canadian television programming block
• The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
• "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits), a TV episode

Music

• Zone Records, a record label
• Zones (band), British punk band
• Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
• Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
• Zone (album), by Southern Sons
• The Zone (album), by Enter Shikari
• "Zone", a 1976 single by The Rhythm Makers
• "The Zone", a song by The Weeknd from the album Trilogy
• In the Zone, a Britney Spears album
  • In the Zone (DVD), released in connection with the album

Other

• Time zone
• Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church

See also

• La Zona (disambiguation)