Region (disambiguation)
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Region is a term used by contemporary geographers to describe an area of land or water that is part of a larger whole.
Region or Regional may also refer to:
Transportation
- RegionsAir, an airline based in the United States
- Regional airline, any airline that services a limited area, or any of several specific regional airlines, including
- Regional Air (Papua New Guinea), an airline based in Papua New Guinea
- Regional Air, a defunct airline formerly based in Kenya
- Regional Air Services (Tanzania), an airline based in Tanzania
- Regional Express Airlines, an airline based in Australia
- Regional 1, an airline based in Canada
- Regional Pacific Airlines, a defunct airline based in Australia
- Régional, an airline based in France
Regional is also the name of at least two rail lines:
- Regional Railways one of the three former passenger sectors of British Rail from 1981 to 1996
- Regional (Amtrak), a train line that runs between Massachusetts and Virginia
Computer science
- Region-based memory management, a memory management technique in which allocations are organized into regions and all objects in a region can be deallocated at once
- In raster graphics, a region is a data structure used to represent an arbitrary set of pixels (in Apple QuickDraw) or series of shapes (Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface or X Window System) to be drawn on the screen
- In digital audio editing, a region is a reference to a portion of an audio file
Mathematics
- Region (mathematical analysis), a non-empty, open, connected set
Physics
- A subset of physical space that is regular open, connected, and bounded, and whose size may range, depending on the context, from very small to very large
Corporations
- Regions Financial Corporation, a banking and financial services company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
Politics
- Region (Europe), a political subdivision within the European Union
Fiction
- Region, a small location in Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe
- Regional novel, see
Media
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