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*Zorlanae
Zorlanae, recorded as Zorlanis on the Tabula Peutingeriana, is a Roman road station in southern Thrace between Malkara and Ainos, tentatively placed near modern Keşan, Turkey.
Z
Z, pronounced "zed," is a formal specification notation for describing computer systems using mathematics, developed at Oxford University from the late 1970s and standardized as ISO/IEC 13568:2002.
Z (1969 film)
Z (1969), Costa-Gavras's French-Algerian political thriller from Vassilikos's novel on Grigoris Lambrakis's 1963 assassination; won two Oscars, Cannes Jury Prize, banned in Greece.
Z (EP)
Z (EP), the third EP and first commercial release by American R&B singer SZA, released April 8, 2014 on Top Dawg Entertainment; 10 tracks, 40 minutes, guests Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Isaiah Rashad.
Z (military symbol)
The Z military symbol is a white Latin-letter marking first seen on Russian vehicles around 19 February 2022 before the invasion of Ukraine; it became the chief pro-war symbol, promoted by the Russian Defense Ministry and RT, and declined after 2023.
Z 126-111
Z 126-111 is a Zwicky catalog designation for the Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also cataloged as UGC 6253, a small dark-matter-dominated satellite of the Milky Way in Leo.
Z 153-10
Z 153-10, also known as Leo A, is a gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy in Leo, about 2.5 million light-years away and one of the most isolated Local Group galaxies.
Z 184-50
Z 184-50, also known as Markarian 421, is a bright nearby blazar in Ursa Major that the Whipple Observatory detected in 1992 as the first TeV blazar.
Z 225-7
Z 225-7 is a catalog designation of Markarian 501, a nearby blazar in Hercules and one of the brightest very-high-energy gamma-ray sources in the sky.
Z 294-4
Z 294-4 is the designation of an entry in Fritz Zwicky's Catalogue of Selected Compact Galaxies and of Post-Eruptive Galaxies, a 1965 series listing 210 compact and eruptive galaxies.
Z 300-12
Z 300-12 is the Zwicky catalog designation of the Draco Dwarf galaxy, a dwarf spheroidal satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation Draco, discovered in 1954.
Z 431-72
Z 431-72 is a catalog designation for the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, a small dwarf galaxy in Pegasus and a peripheral member of the Local Group.
Z 64-73
Z 64-73, also called the Regulus Dwarf, is the Zwicky catalog designation of Leo I, a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered in 1950.
Z Andromedae
Z Andromedae is a symbiotic variable star in Andromeda and the prototype of the symbiotic stars, interacting binaries of a hot compact object and a cool giant.
Z Camelopardalis
Z Camelopardalis, or Z Cam, is a dwarf nova in Camelopardalis, discovered in 1904, and the prototype of a class of dwarf novae known for standstills.
Z Canis Majoris
Z Canis Majoris is a very young pre-main-sequence binary star in Canis Major, about 1,100 parsecs away, made up of a Herbig Be star and an FU Orionis-type companion.
Z chałupy
Z chałupy ("From the Cottage") is a cycle of 40 sonnets by the Polish poet Jan Kasprowicz, written in Wrocław prison in 1887 and published in 1888.
Z Chamaeleontis
Z Chamaeleontis, or Z Cha, is an eclipsing dwarf nova of the SU Ursae Majoris type in Chamaeleon, long used to map the accretion disk around its white dwarf.
Z for Zachariah
Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien's 1974 posthumous post-apocalyptic YA novel (completed by Sally and Jane Conly), told as Ann Burden's diary of surviving nuclear war with John Loomis; Edgar Award winner, adapted for BBC TV in 1984 and film in 2015.
Z for Zachariah (film)
Z for Zachariah (2015) is a post-apocalyptic drama directed by Craig Zobel, written by Nissar Modi, starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine, adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's 1974 novel; Caleb was invented for the film.
Z Fund (智谱生态基金)
Z Fund (智谱生态基金, Xinglian Capital) is a Chinese RMB venture capital fund for early-stage AI large-model startups, initiated by Zhipu in 2024 with a first close of RMB 1.5 billion.
Z Nation
Z Nation is a Syfy zombie apocalypse series (2014-2018, five seasons) by The Asylum, following survivors escorting bite-survivor Murphy cross-country; known for fast mutating zombies, humor, and the Black Summer prequel.
Z notation
The Z notation, also known as the Z specification language, is a formal specification language based on typed set theory and predicate logic, developed at Oxford around 1980.
Z Pulsed Power Facility
The Z Pulsed Power Facility, or Z machine, is a pulsed-power accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque that produces the world's most powerful laboratory X-ray pulses.
Z shell
The Z shell (zsh) is a UNIX shell written by Paul Falstad in 1990, known for programmable tab completion and the default on the Mac since 2019.
Z Special Unit
Z Special Unit (Z Force), a joint Allied special forces unit formed in Australia in June 1942 to operate behind Japanese lines in Southeast Asia; administrative holding unit for Special Operations Australia, best known for the Jaywick and Rimau raids on Singapore.
Z-138
Z-138 (Z138, CVCL_B077, ATCC CRL-3001) is a human mantle cell lymphoma cell line with blastoid features, derived in 1990 from a CLL patient; it carries t(11;14), overexpresses cyclin D1, has wild-type TP53, and is ibrutinib-insensitive.
Z-binding domain
Z-binding domain (Zα domain): winged helix-turn-helix protein module, first found in ADAR1, that binds left-handed Z-DNA and Z-RNA conformation-specifically over 6 basepairs; carried by ADAR1 p150, ZBP1, PKZ, E3L, ORF112, and RBP7910, distinct from the non-binding Zβ domain.
Z-Boys
The Z-Boys, also called the Zephyr Competition Team, were a skateboarding team of twelve teenagers from Dogtown, Santa Monica, who transformed skateboarding in the mid-1970s.
Z-code
The Z-code is a set of three-letter military radio operating signals, published with the Q-code in ACP 131 and best known for Bravo Zulu, meaning "well done".