STRIKE ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strike zone mean? 

• STRIKE ZONE (noun)
  The noun STRIKE ZONE has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike

  Familiarity information: STRIKE ZONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIKE ZONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("strike zone" is a kind of...):

zone (an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)