Strike Zone: An area directly over home plate, from the bottom of the batter's kneecaps to the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of the batter's uniform pants.

 

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Strike Zone: Target area on either side of HEADPIN.

Strike: The feat of knocking down all ten pins with the first ball. The score for the frame is 10 plus the total number of pins knocked down by the next two balls. The symbol is X.

Strike Out: Usually, getting all three strikes in the tenth frame; also sometimes the same as punch out.

Subduction Zone: An area at a convergent plate boundary where an oceanic plate is being forced down into the mantle beneath another plate. These can be identified by a zone of progressively deeper earthquakes.

Strike-Slip Fault: A fault with horizontal displacement, typically caused by shear stress.

Radar Zone Of Influence: The area outside the main power beam or outside the beam width.

Sunlight Zone: See Photic Zone.

Surf Zone: An area of breaking waves bounded by the point of first breakers, then landward to the maximum uprush of waves on the beach.

Twilight Zone: See Mesopelagic Zone.

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