Zone
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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 defense, in basketball
- Zoning, in urban planning
- DVD region code
- 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
- 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.
- , A server in the MMORPG game Graal.
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