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Zweihänder
The Zweihänder, also called Bidenhänder, is the largest form of European sword, a two-edged blade up to two meters long wielded by Swiss and German Landsknecht mercenaries before becoming ceremonial by the late 1500s.
Zweiohrküken
Zweiohrküken (Rabbit Without Ears 2, also Keinohrhasen 2) is Til Schweiger's 2009 German romantic comedy sequel to Keinohrhasen, starring Schweiger and Nora Tschirner as Ludo and Anna, released 3 December 2009, 124 minutes, FSK 12.
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa, born 1960 in Durban, South Africa, is a painter and photographer known for large-format color portraits of township residents, migrant workers, and church congregants; his work is held at MoMA.
Zwentendorf
Zwentendorf an der Donau, a market town in Lower Austria on the Danube (postal code 3435), known through its clubs: TC Zwentendorf tennis (founded 1970), SV Zwentendorf football, and Musikverein (founded 1955).
Zwicker
Zwicker, also called Zwickern or Zwickeln, is a German fishing card game from Schleswig-Holstein, played by four in partnerships with 52 cards plus 3 to 6 jokers, scoring a Zwick bonus for clearing the table.
Zwicky (lunar crater)
Zwicky is a far-side lunar crater named for Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), IAU-approved in 2006, mapped on LTO-103B2 in quad LAC-103, with satellite crater Zwicky S (45.64 km).
Zwicky Transient Facility
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is an optical sky survey at Palomar Observatory in California that has scanned the northern sky for changing objects, especially supernovae, since 2018.
Zwide kaNqetho
Zwide kaNqetho ruled the Ndwandwe kingdom and was a leading figure in the Mfecane: he killed Dingiswayo in 1818, was defeated by Shaka, and his broken kingdom scattered successor states across southeastern Africa.
Zwigato
Zwigato is a 2023 Hindi drama directed by Nandita Das, starring Kapil Sharma as laid-off factory manager turned food-delivery rider Manas in Bhubaneswar; title blends Swiggy and Zomato; premiered at TIFF 2022, released 17 March 2023, streamed on Prime Video from October 2024.
Zwinger (Dresden)
The Zwinger is a late Baroque palace ensemble in Dresden, Germany, built from 1710 to 1728 for Augustus the Strong and now housing three museums.
Zwingli-era clerical marriage petitions
The Zwingli-era clerical marriage petitions were formal 1522 requests by Huldrych Zwingli and ten other Zurich priests to the bishop and Swiss Diet for permission to marry.
Zwitterion
A zwitterion is a molecule with a full positive and a full negative charge at different locations, giving it zero net charge; amino acids are the most familiar examples.
Zwitterionic nanoparticles
Zwitterionic nanoparticles are drug-delivery particles whose surfaces carry balanced positive and negative charges, forming a hydration layer that resists protein adsorption as an alternative to PEG coatings.
Zwitterionic polymer
A zwitterionic polymer, or polyzwitterion, is a polymer carrying equal numbers of positive and negative ionic groups, giving it strong antifouling properties used in medical implants, drug delivery, and marine coatings.
Zwitterionic polymer coatings
Zwitterionic polymer coatings are surface layers of polymers whose units carry paired positive and negative charges; their bound water layer resists proteins, bacteria, and biofilms.
Zwolle
Zwolle, capital of Overijssel in the Netherlands, about 129,000 residents, lies in the IJssel-Vecht delta with its center outside the dikes; Hanseatic history, strong economy, and a 4,400-home 2026-2030 coalition program.
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum, also called the Sinclair Spectrum, is an 8-bit home computer released by Sinclair Research in Britain in 1982 for as little as £125.
ZX2021
ZX2021 (GGGF-1) is a Chinese Fc-fusion triple agonist of GCGR, GIPR, and GLP-1R by Jiangsu Zhongxin Pharmaceutical, in Phase 2 for obesity and type 2 diabetes.
ZX80
The Sinclair ZX80 is an 8-bit home computer launched in Cambridge, England, in January 1980 as the first personal computer advertised for under £100, selling about 50,000 units.
ZX81
The ZX81, also sold as the Sinclair ZX81, is a low-cost home computer made by Sinclair Research and launched in England in 1981, selling more than 1.5 million units worldwide.
ZXMOTO
ZXMOTO (张雪机车) is a Chinese motorcycle maker founded in Chongqing in 2024 by Zhang Xue, whose 820RR won the first WorldSSP race for a Chinese marque in 2026.
ZY (satellite bus)
ZY is a family of remote sensing satellite buses, designated ZY1000, ZY2000, and ZY3000, developed by China's China Academy of Space Technology for Earth observation.
ZyCoV-D
ZyCoV-D (Zydus Cadila) is the world's first authorized plasmid DNA COVID-19 vaccine, needle-free intradermal, 66.6% phase 3 efficacy, EUA in India August 2021, two-dose from April 2022.
Zyda 2
Zyda 2 is an open pretraining corpus of about 5 trillion tokens of English web text, released by Zyphra in November 2024 and used to pretrain its Zamba2 model family.
Zydeco
Zydeco is the accordion-led, washboard-driven dance music of Louisiana's Black Creoles, evolved from la-la and modernized in 1940s-50s Houston, notably by Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco.
Zydeco Oil Pipeline
The Zydeco Oil Pipeline, formerly the Houston-Houma pipeline, is a FERC-regulated crude oil system over 350 miles long, running from Houston, Texas to Houma, St. James, and Clovelly, Louisiana.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Žydrūnas Ilgauskas), "Big Z", Lithuanian 7'3" NBA center, Cavaliers 1996-2010 and Heat 2010-11; two-time All-Star, Cavs records in blocks and offensive rebounds, No. 11 retired 2014.
Žydrūnas Savickas
Žydrūnas Savickas (Big Z), Lithuanian strongman born 1975 in Biržai; four-time World's Strongest Man (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014) and eight-time Arnold Strongman Classic winner; former powerlifter, later federation head.
Zydus Lifesciences
Zydus Lifesciences, known until February 2022 as Cadila Healthcare, is an Indian pharmaceutical company founded in 1952 by Ramanbhai Patel and Indravadan Modi, spanning generics, vaccines, and consumer wellness.
Zygaenidae
Zygaenidae, burnet, forester, and smoky moths, a family of about 1,100 diurnal aposematic moths in Zygaenoidea with five subfamilies, defended by cyanogenic glucosides releasing hydrogen cyanide.