comfort zone en · NOUN
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Meanings
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The range of temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors that people or other organisms require in order to be physiologically unstressed.
All this is very bad news for coral, which has a fairly limited temperature comfort zone.
2015, The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2000, →ISBN:The desirable comfort zone indicated lies between 30 and 65% relative humidity.
2015, Victor Olgyay, Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, →ISBN:The child who swings between extremes has trouble finding the comfort zone—the area in which her body is comfortable, efficient, and alert.
2014, Terri Mauro, The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder, →ISBN, page 191:The warmest temperature that defines this comfort zone is the critical high temperature, above which chickens suffer heat stress. The lowest temperature is the critical low, below which chickens suffer cold stress.
2016, Gail Damerow, The Chicken Health Handbook, →ISBN:
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(broadly, idiomatic) The range of circumstances in which a person feels relaxed or able to cope.
Anything is a strong word… But the major building blocks of life: work, relationships, leisure activities and growth – dancing can help you with all of these. How? By getting you out of your comfort zone. And getting out of your comfort zone is the first step towards being a dancer, as well as succeeding at most other activities.
2021 January 11, “How Dancing Can Help You Do Anything”, in Harlequin The Dance Store, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:The demanding interview panel took him well out of his comfort zone.
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Translations (39)
ru зона комфорта (range of environmental factors) · ja コンフォートゾーン (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · nl luie stoel (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · cmn 舒適區 /舒适区 (range of environmental factors) · ms zon selesa (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · ar مِنْطَقَة رَاحَة (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · yue 舒適區 /舒适区 (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · it comfort zone (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · sv bekvämlighetszon (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · arz كمفورت زون (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · pl strefa komfortu (range of environmental factors) · he אֵזוֹר הַנוֹחוּת (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · de Komfortzone (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · cmn 舒適區 /舒适区 (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · pl strefa komfortu (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · pt zona de conforto (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · fr zone de confort (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · cmn 舒適圈 /舒适圈 (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · ro zonă de confort (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · cmn 舒適圈 /舒适圈 (range of environmental factors) · da komfortzone (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · hu komfortzóna (range of environmental factors) · es zona de confort (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · fr zone de confort (range of environmental factors) · tr konfor alanı (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · ru зона комфорта (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · uk зона комфорту (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · ca zona de confort (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · cs komfortní zóna (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · id zona nyaman (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · pt zona de conforto (range of environmental factors) · yue 舒適區 /舒适区 (range of environmental factors) · hu komfortzóna (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · yue 舒適圈 /舒适圈 (range of environmental factors) · fi mukavuusalue (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · el ζώνη άνεσης (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · fi mukavuusalue (range of environmental factors) · it zona di conforto (circumstances in which a person feels relaxed) · es zona de confort (range of environmental factors)