torrid zones

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• ZONES —    the name given to belts of climate on the surface of the earth marked off by the tropical and polar circles, of which the former are 23½° from the equator and the latter 23½° from the poles, the zone between the tropical circles, subject to… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Torrid Zone — Synonyms and related words: Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Frigid Zones, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, climate, clime, equator, furnace, hell, horse latitudes, inferno, latitude, longitude, longitude in arc,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• List of Zones — General Zones* Benthic Zone * Buffer Zone * Continuous Permafrost Zone * Crumple Zone * Dead Zone * Death Zone * Free Trade Zone * Hardiness Zone * Intertidal Zone * Intertropical Convergence Zone * Littoral Zone * North Frigid Zone * Pelagic… …   Wikipedia

• Frigid Zones — Synonyms and related words: Alaska, Antarctic Zone, Antarctica, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Greenland, Iceland, Lower Slobbovia, North Pole, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia, South Pole, Tierra del Fuego, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn …   Moby Thesaurus

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• Amphiscians — (n.) 1620s, from M.L. Amphiscii, from Gk. amphiskioi inhabitants of the tropics, lit. throwing a shadow both ways, from amphi on both sides (see AMPHI (Cf. amphi )) + skia shadow (see SHINE (Cf. shine)). Inhabitants of torrid zones, so called… …   Etymology dictionary

• tropical — 1520s, “pertaining to the celestial tropics,” from TROPIC (Cf. tropic) + AL (Cf. al) (1). In reference to the torrid zones of the earth, from 1690s …   Etymology dictionary

• temperate — adj. 1 avoiding excess; self restrained. 2 moderate. 3 (of a region or climate) characterized by mild temperatures. 4 abstemious. Phrases and idioms: temperate zone the belt of the earth between the frigid and the torrid zones. Derivatives:… …   Useful english dictionary