What is "red zone"

n. 1 (context American football English) The area extending twenty yards from the end zone, where a team in possession of the ball is expected to score. 2 (context California English) An area of a street where the curb has been painted red, indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited at that spot (except, in some places, for buses).

Red Zone or redzone may refer to:

Red Zone is a video game developed by Zyrinx and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 for the Sega Genesis console.

A pre-release version of this game - Hardwired - has been deemed by the (now defunct) developer as publicly distributable.

The game used a number of technologies that were not prevalent at the time on the Genesis/Mega Drive.

Red Zone is a term designating unsafe areas in Iraq after the 2003 invasion by the United States, Britain, and other allies. It is contrasted with the high-security sector of Baghdad called the Green Zone. Since the Green Zone is a very small area, "Red Zone" is applied to the rest of Baghdad.

U.S. journalist Steven Vincent, who was murdered in Basra in August 2005, wrote a book titled In the Red Zone: A Journey into the Soul of Iraq (ISBN 1-890626-57-0); it was based on his blog by the same title. 1

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In computing, a red zone is a fixed-size area in a function's stack frame beyond the return address which is not preserved by that function. The callee function may use the red zone for storing local variables without the extra overhead of modifying the stack pointer. This region of memory is not to be modified by interrupt/ exception/ signal handlers. The x86-64 ABI used by System V mandates a 128-byte red zone, which begins directly after the return address and includes the function's arguments. The OpenRISC toolchain assumes a 128-byte red zone.

In gridiron football, the red zone is the area of the field between the 20-yard line and the goal line. The red zone has no official meaning during the process of playing the game and is not generally marked on the field (although some professional stadiums may have special striping for the 20-yard line). The term is mostly for statistical, psychological, and commercial advertising purposes (radio networks have been known to sell sponsorship of the red zone whenever the home team enters it). It is said to be a place where the chances of scoring are statistically higher.

Being closer to the end zone, play while in the red zone involves closer cramping of the offense and defense. The short field of play means safeties have a smaller area to worry about defending, wide receivers do not have to run as far, and passes are not thrown as far. Though the distance to the goal line is less than other parts of the field, with all defenders being crammed into a smaller space and having less room to worry about defending, advancing the ball and ultimately scoring may be more difficult. (This is less of a factor in Canadian football, where the end zones are significantly deeper and wider than the American game.)

For all but the weakest amateur kickers, the red zone is universally within field goal range, assuring that points will be scored on a drive unless the team on offense commits a turnover (either an interception or a lost fumble). As a result, ball control is a greater priority in most red zone situations.

In the " Kansas Playoff" method of settling ties, play is generally confined to the red zone.

The area in the capital of Pakistan islamabad where Aiwan-e-Sadr, Prime Minister's Secretariat is located is called Red Zone these are the place where President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan reside . Also Islamabad’s Red Zone consist of most important building of the capital city such as

• Parliament of Pakistan
• Pak Sectariat
• Supreme Court of Pakistan
• National Library of Pakistan
• Diplomatic Enclave, Islamabad
• Embassies of foreign countries
• Constitution Avenue
• Third Avenue