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Meaning of region

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  region
      n 1: the extended spatial location of something; "the farming
           regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world";
           "regions of outer space" [syn: {region}, {part}]
      2: a part of an animal that has a special function or is
         supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal
         region" [syn: {area}, {region}]
      3: a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
         "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
      4: 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" [syn: {region},
         {neighborhood}]
      5: 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" [syn: {region}, {realm}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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