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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Gr. a girdle, from wvvivat, to gird), a term for a belt or girdle, now used chiefly in the transferred sense of a demarcated area. Thus the earth's surface is divided, for classification of climates, into five climatic zones: the two temperate and the two frigid zones and the tropical or torrid zone. (See CLIMATE AND CLIMATOLOGY.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Zone'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/z/zone.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Zone'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/z/zone.html. 1910.
