region
英['riːdʒ(ə)n]
美['ridʒən]
英英释意
- 1. the extended spatial location of something;
- "the farming regions of France"
- "religions in all parts of the world"
- "regions of outer space"
- 2. a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
- "in the abdominal 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"
- 5. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
- "it was a limited domain of discourse"
- "here we enter the region of opinion"
- "the realm of the occult"