Region - Definition

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]