region (
http://definr.com/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:
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]
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:
neighborhood]
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" [syn:
domain,
realm]