zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zōn
ipa: /zoʊn/
ipa: /zəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: zones
Etymology: From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).
Senses: examples: text: And as two Zones doe cut the Heaven upon the righter side, / And other twaine upon the left likewise the same devide, / The middle in outragious heat exceeding all the rest: / Even so likewise through great foresight to God it seemed best, / The earth encluded in the same should so devided bee […].
ref: 1567, Ovid, translated by Arthur Golding, Metamorphoses, section I:
text: To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:
text: And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce[…]defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone.
ref: 1841, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume 2, page 270:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: 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).
glosses: Any given region or area of the world.
examples: text: There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
text: The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
text: Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
glosses: A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
examples: text: The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.
glosses: A restricted category or virtual place.
examples: text: a zone of evergreens on a mountain
text: the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
text: Some of the lagoons, said to have subterranean outlets, have no visible ones; the inclosing island, in such cases, being a complete zone of emerald.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A band or area of growth encircling anything.
glosses: A band or stripe extending around a body.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
examples: text: That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The strike zone.
examples: text: Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
examples: text: The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.
ref: 1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 31:
topics: ball-games
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A semicircular area in front of each goal.
examples: text: I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A high-performance phase or period.
topics: American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
examples: text: 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263,
Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
text: […] Or should she, confident, / As sitting queen adored on beauty's throne, / Descend with all her winning charms begirt / To enamour, as the zone of Venus once / Wrought that effect on Jove, so fables tell : / How would one look from his majestic brow, / Seated as on the top of virtue's hill, / Discountenance her despised, and put to rout / All her array; her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe ? […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 211-220:
text: From the waiſt downwards, they wore a looſe robe, girt with an embroidered zone or belt about the middle, with a large claſp of gold, and a precious ſtone.
ref: 1779, Thomas Forrest, A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan, page 21:
text: 18th c, William Collins, The Passions: An Ode for Music, 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 13, page 204,
Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
text: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, LV, 1827, The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems, page 565,
There was the Donna Julia, whom to call / Pretty were but to give a feeble notion / Of many charms in her as natural / As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean, / Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid / (But this last simile is trite and stupid).
text: 1844, Charles Dickens, The life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1865, Works of Charles Dickens, Volume VI: Martin Chuzzlewit—Volume II, page 421,
[…] it was the prettiest thing to see her girding on the precious little zone, and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; […].
text: `Look now on me, Kallikrates!' and with a sudden motion she shook her gauzy covering from her, and stood forth in her low kirtle and her snaky zone, in her glorious radiant beauty and her imperial grace, rising from her wrappings, as it were, like Venus from the wave, or Galatea from her marble, or a beatified spirit from the tomb.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A belt or girdle.
examples: text: 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293,
To find the surface of a spherical zone.
Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
text: A zone of a sphere is the curved surface of a frustum.[…]Determine, correct to 3 significant figures (a) the volume of the frustum of the sphere, (b) the radius of the sphere and (c) the area of the zone formed.
ref: 2014, John Bird, Engineering Mathematics, page 183:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: perhaps by meronymy
glosses: A frustum of a sphere.
examples: text: And we have yet large day; for scarce the sun / Hath finish'd half his journey, and scarce begins / His other half in the great zone of heaven.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 558 to 560:
glosses: A circuit; a circumference.
Synonyms: sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: area
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: belt
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: district
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: region
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: section
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: sector
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: sphere
sense: area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
word: territory
sense: handball: area in front of a goal
word: crease
Coordinate terms: sense: religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
word: alb
word: epigonation
word: epimanikion
word: epitrachelion
word: maniple
word: mitre
word: omophorion
word: rhason
word: sakkos
word: sticharion
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from zone (noun)
word: abscission zone
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word: abyssal zone
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word: adaptive zone
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word: aeration zone
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word: annular zone
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word: aphotic zone
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word: attacking zone
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word: availability zone
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word: bang zone
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word: Benioff zone
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word: biozone
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word: black zone
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word: blue zone
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word: Brillouin zone
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word: brother-zone
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word: bro-zone
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word: bubble zone
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word: buffer zone
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word: chemoreceptor trigger zone
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word: chemotrigger zone
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word: combat zone
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word: comfort zone
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word: communications zone
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word: continuously habitable zone
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word: crumple zone
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word: crush zone
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word: danger zone
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word: dead zone
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word: death zone
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word: defending zone
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word: defensive zone
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word: demilitarized zone
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word: DMZ
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word: drop zone
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word: end zone
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word: epipelagic zone
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word: erogenous zone
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word: euphotic zone
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word: eurozone
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word: exchange zone
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word: exclusion zone
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word: exclusive economic zone
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word: fan zone
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word: feed zone
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word: float-zone silicon
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word: flood the zone
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word: foveal avascular zone
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word: foveal zone
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word: free speech zone
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word: free trade zone
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word: free zone
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word: Fresnel zone plate
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word: friend-zone
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word: fuck zone
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word: galactic habitable zone
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word: geopolitical zone
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word: geozone
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word: Goldilocks zone
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word: habitable zone
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word: home zone
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word: hot zone
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word: intertidal zone
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word: intertropical convergence zone
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word: in the zone
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word: kill zone
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word: landing zone
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word: lethal zone
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word: life zone
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word: limnetic zone
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word: lineage zone
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word: littoral zone
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word: loading zone
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word: lower leaf zone
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word: machine zone
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word: mesopelagic zone
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word: neutral zone
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word: neutral-zone infraction
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word: no fall zone
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word: no-fly zone
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word: no-lone zone
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word: no lone zone
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word: north temperate zone
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word: nuclear-free zone
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word: offensive zone
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word: orogenous zone
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word: pedestrian zone
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word: pelagic zone
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word: photic zone
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word: phreatic zone
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word: purple zone
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word: quiet zone
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word: red zone
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word: red-zone
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word: relegation zone
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word: rift zone
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word: romance zone
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word: sacrifice zone
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word: saturated zone
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word: seismogenic zone
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word: shadow zone
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word: shear zone
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word: smokeless zone
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word: south temperate zone
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word: space equivalent zone
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word: special economic zone
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word: subduction zone
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word: sunlight zone
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word: temperate zone
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word: temporal dead zone
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word: time-zone
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word: torrid zone
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word: tow-away zone
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word: transition zone
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word: twilight zone
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word: T-zone
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word: upper leaf zone
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word: Venus zone
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word: Wadati-Benioff zone
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word: war zone
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word: white zone
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word: work zone
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word: zone-batch picking
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word: zone-batch-wave picking
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word: zone defense
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word: zone foot therapy
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word: zone melting
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word: zone of action
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word: zone of avoidance
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word: Zone of Death
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word: zone of fire
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word: zone of polarizing activity
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word: zone of proximal development
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word: zone of rarity
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word: zone of saturation
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word: zone picking
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word: zone plate
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word: zone punch
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word: zone refining
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word: zone-tailed hawk
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word: zone time
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word: zone-wave picking
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word: zonule
Related terms: zone file