Zonal can refer to:
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Zonal and meridional, directions on a globe, west–east and north–south, respectively.
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Zonal and poloidal In magnetic confinement fusion the zonal direction primarily connotes the poloidal direction (i.e. the short way around the torus), the corresponding coordinate being denoted by ''y'' in the slab approximation or ''θ'' in magnetic coordinates. Howe ...
, directions in a toroidal magnetically confined plasma
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Zonal polynomial In mathematics, a zonal polynomial is a multivariate symmetric homogeneous polynomial. The zonal polynomials form a basis of the space of symmetric polynomials.
They appear as zonal spherical functions of the Gelfand pairs
(S_,H_n) (here, H_n is th ...
, a symmetric multivariate polynomial
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Zonal pelargonium Zonal can refer to:
* Zonal and meridional, directions on a globe, west–east and north–south, respectively.
* Zonal and poloidal, directions in a toroidal magnetically confined plasma
* Zonal polynomial, a symmetric multivariate polynomial
* Zo ...
, a type of pelargoniums
* Zonal tournaments in chess: see
Interzonal#Zonal tournaments
* Electronic musicians
Zonal, previously known as Techno Animal
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