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Neutral Zone: The area on the ice between the blue lines.

Neutral Zone Trap: The neutral zone trap is a defensive ice hockey strategy used by a team to prevent an opposing team from proceeding through the neutral zone (the area between both blue lines) by forcing tur . . . View Full Definition

Zones: Three areas made up by the two blue lines; the attacking zone is the area farthest from the goal a player is defending; the neutral zone is the central area; the defending zone is the area w . . . View Full Definition

Center Zone: The neutral zone.

Soil Moisture Zone: Depth of soil from which plant roots extract water.

Side Zone: The area between a hash mark and a sideline

Risk-Neutral: Insensitive to risk.

Seismic Transition Zone: A seismic discontinuity, found in all parts of the Earth, at which the velocity increases rapidly with depth: especially the one at 300 to 600 kilometers.

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.

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.