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Definition: Temperate Zone |
Temperate ZoneNoun1. The part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by temperate climate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Temperate Zone |
| English words defined with "Temperate Zone": Armeria maritima, Asplenium trichomanes ♦ beach pea, bladdernut family, buckwheat family ♦ catchfly, Cerastium arvense, chocolate root, cliff rose, common apricot ♦ family Polygonaceae, family Staphylaceae, field chickweed, field mouse-ear ♦ garden sorrel, genus Pogonia, Geum rivale ♦ Hibernaculum ♦ Indian chocolate ♦ Lathyrus japonicus, Lathyrus maritimus, lychnis ♦ maidenhair spleenwort, maple, midgrass, Myrica gale ♦ North Temperate Zone ♦ Polygonaceae, Prunus armeniaca, purple avens ♦ Rumex acetosa ♦ Scotch gale, sea pea, sea pink, sour dock, South Temperate Zone, Staphylaceae, sturgeon, sweet gale ♦ water avens. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Temperate Zone": thermocline. (references) |
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Health | A. In the temperate zone of the world (i.e., between latitudes 23.5 and 66.5 north and south), West Nile encephalitis cases occur primarily in the late summer or early fall. In the southern climates where temperatures are milder, West Nile virus can be transmitted year round. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | Climate: Mostly tropical or semitropical with temperate zone in the south. (references) |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Situated within the temperate zone, and extending through many degrees of latitude along the Atlantic, the United States enjoy all the varieties of climate, and every production incident to that portion of the globe. |
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Expressions using "Temperate Zone": North Temperate Zone ♦ South Temperate Zone. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
temperate zone | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "Temperate Zone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | منطقة معتدلة. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 溫帶 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | Vakgroep Houtteelt, Landb. Hogeschool, Wageningen (Department of Sylviculture in the Temperate Zone). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | zone tempérée. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 温帯 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"たい (boss, governor). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | cryss tempreilagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | emperatetay onezay умеренный пояс. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Temperate Zone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temparate zone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-m-n-o-p-r-t-t-z" | |
-3 letters: pentameter. | |
-4 letters: penetrate, temperate, treponema, treponeme. | |
-5 letters: attemper, emeerate, entrepot, mezereon, operetta, patentee, patentor, permeant, permeate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 65 72 61 74 65      5A 6F 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01011010 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p e r a t e   Z o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065      005A 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547179827184678671260818071 |
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