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zone: A listening/viewing area in a multiroom audio or A/V system.

zoom: A feature of video devices, principally camcorders and DVD players, that lets you enlarge a portion of the picture.

zoom lens: A lens of variable focal length, usually ranging from a mild wide-angle setting to a telephoto setting. Often the lens’s optical zoom range is supplemented by a digital zoom function that magnifies a progressively smaller number of pixels at the center of the image sensor.

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