hot zone
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.59 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area to which access is restricted because it is contaminated with radiation or a chemical or biological biohazard.
noun
An area where fighting or hostilities are likely to erupt.
noun
An apparatus for growing crystals at very hot temperatures.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, zone.
Example Sentences
- "A hot zone was established quickly. Unfortunately, these efforts were compromised by a few MPD officers on the scene who did not understand the serious nature of the potential chemical/biological threat and treated the incident more as a bomb scare. These officers initially crossed in and out of the hot zone, and could have contaminated themselves and other personnel had this been a real incident."
- "Medical monitoring is an essential aspect to conducting operations in the hot zone."
- "Subsequently, it became evident that Iitate was a hot zone with very high levels of radiation contamination and all of its residents and evacuees had to be evacuated."
- "The bush war still scared him. Even more this day for he knew he was to travel through a hot zone with only three other men, none of them soldiers either, to an area close to the Gona-Re-Zhou transited extensively by groups of well armed communist trained insurgents based in Mozambique."
- "Any spot I could point to on a map was about to turn into a hot zone. There was too much trougle brewing for it not to bubble over, and by the summer of 2012, I had a major decision to make."
- "In the Argentina of the seventies, Tucumán was a “hot” zone."