Definition of "zone"

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 […].

1567, Ovid, translated by Arthur Golding, Metamorphoses, section I

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 […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi

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.

1841, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume 2, page 270

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.

1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […]

The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.

1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball‎, page 31

Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.

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

[…] 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 ? […]

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 211-220

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.

1779, Thomas Forrest, A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan, page 21

Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,

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

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).

1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, LV, 1827, The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems, page 565

[…] 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; […].

1844, Charles Dickens, The life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1865, Works of Charles Dickens, Volume VI: Martin Chuzzlewit—Volume II, page 421

`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.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

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).

1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, page 293

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.

2014, John Bird, Engineering Mathematics, page 183

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.

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 558 to 560

The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.

2018, Bertrand Dufrasne, Christian Burns, Wenzel Kalabza, IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions, page 331

Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. # (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.

1996, Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)