Region

A Region is a Contiguous Subset of a Space.

• Example(s):
  • a Geographical Region.
• See: Surface, Area, Spatial Relation.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=region
  • S: (n) region, part (the extended spatial location of something) "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
  • S: (n) area, region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve) "in the abdominal region"
  • S: (n) region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth) "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
  • S: (n) region, neighborhood (the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')) "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
  • S: (n) region, realm (a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about) "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/region#Noun
  • 1. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
    • the equatorial regions
    • the temperate regions
    • the polar regions
    • the upper regions of the atmosphere
  • 2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
  • 3. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
  • 4. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  • 5. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • the abdominal regions
  • 6. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
  • 7. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

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