temperate zone
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 Tem·per·ate a.
 1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
    She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.   --Shak.
 That sober freedom out of which there springs
 Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.   --Tennyson.
 3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
    Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.   --Franklin.
 4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
    The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.   --Pope.
 Temperate zone Geog., that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
 Syn: -- Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.


 Temperate Zone
      n : the part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle
          and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle
          and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by temperate
          climate