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a state of mind so focused it forgets the body exists
means A specific area marked off by some boundary or shared quality — geographic, climatic, regulatory, or metaphorical — within which particular rules or conditions apply.
from From Greek 'zōnē,' meaning a belt or girdle — the thing you wrapped around your waist. Ancient geographers borrowed the image to slice the globe into climatic belts: the frigid zones at the poles, the torrid zone at the middle, the temperate zones between. The word traveled through Latin 'zona' into English keeping its old sense of 'something that encircles,' which is why a zone still feels like a band drawn around a piece of the world.
- the flow
- Athletes report time slowing while in it
- end zone
- Crossing it scores six football points
- time zones
- Twenty-four divide a single spinning planet
- comfort zone
- Growth famously lives just outside its walls
- twilight zone
- A dimension of imagination, per Rod Serling
twilight zone — rod serling's anthology tv series (1959-1964) exploring the mysterious boundaries between reality and imagination
demilitarized zone korea — 2.5-mile-wide buffer between north and south korea established by the 1953 armistice
exclusion zone chornobyl — 30km radius around the 1986 nuclear disaster in ukraine, still largely uninhabited
parking zone san francisco — color-coded curb zones (red, yellow, blue) marking specific parking regulations in the city