hot zone

noun

computing a variable area towards the end of a line of text that informs the operator that a decision must be taken as to whether to hyphenate or begin a new line

Discover More

Liberia, once the hot zone, now reports 7,719 cases, while Guinea has 2,283.

Sierra Leone, the potential new hot zone of this epidemic, is facing many hurdles.

Insufficient protocols or incompetent practices for and by the nurses in the hospital hot zone.

The health-care volunteers working in the 2014 hot zone(s) are true heroes, persons of remarkable strength and humanity.

The letter closes with noble words of faith and hope from the hot zone where screw-ups are met each day with selfless courage.

In the hot zone near the equator the sun heats the air continually; hence the air there ascends.

Between the warmth and the cold there were on either side of the hot zone two temperate zones where men might live.

All things are grandest in the hot zone, from mountains to plagues.

This hot zone extends right around the middle part of the earth.

In the forests of the Hot Zone the trees grow very close together.

Browse