(basketball, soccer) A defense in which each player covers an area of the court.

A structural feature of an automobile/motor car designed to compress during an accident and absorb impact energy.

An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.

(baseball) The area through which if a pitched ball passes, it will be called a strike, typically from the batter's knees to the belt and the width of home plate.

zone melting

(physics, chemistry) A technique used to purify a metal, semiconductor or other solid in which a heating system slowly causes a series of molten zones to traverse the solid, leaving purer material behind it.

The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.

Any large portion of the Earth's land area which has a generally uniform climate and soil and therefore a high degree of uniformity in the composition of species; a number of different classifications have been proposed by different people.

The part of the near-surface body of an ocean or lake that receives enough sunlight for photosynthesis to be possible.

(oceanography) That part of the deep body of an ocean or lake that receives insufficient sunlight for photosynthesis to be possible.