English Explanatory Dictionary

death zone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of death zone.

Word forms

death zone death zones lethal zone

Etymology

Coined by Swiss physician and alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant in 1953 as lethal zone.

Synonyms

lethal zone

Related words

Armstrong line dead zone Kármán line kill zone
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