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ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a See also:
GIRDLE (O. Eng. gyrdel, from gyrdan, to gird; cf. Ger. Gurtel, Dutch gordel, from giirten and gorden; "gird" and its doublet " girth " together with the other Teutonic cognates have been referred by some to the root ghar—to seize, enclose, seen in Gr. )(s
girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird) , a See also:

TERM

term for a See also:

belt or See also:

GIRDLE (O. Eng. gyrdel, from gyrdan, to gird; cf. Ger. Gurtel, Dutch gordel, from giirten and gorden; "gird" and its doublet " girth " together with the other Teutonic cognates have been referred by some to the root ghar—to seize, enclose, seen in Gr. )(s

girdle, now used chiefly in the transferred sense of a demarcated See also:

AREA

area . Thus the See also:

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surface is divided, for See also:

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification of climates, into five See also:

CLIMATIC

climatic zones: the two temperate and the two frigid zones and the tropical or torrid See also:

ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone .

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