All articles starting with Z

Zero Day

Zero Day is a 2025 Netflix six-episode political thriller limited series starring Robert De Niro as former President George Mullen investigating a deadly nationwide cyberattack; created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, and Michael S. Schmidt, directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, distinct from the 2016 documentary Zero Days.

Zero Defects

Zero Defects is a quality management philosophy that sets defect-free work as the standard, originating in 1962 at the Martin Company's Orlando plant on the Pershing missile program.

Zero density estimates

A zero-density estimate bounds how many zeros of an L-function, such as the Riemann zeta function, lie to the right of a vertical line Re(s) = σ.

Zero divisor

A zero divisor is a nonzero element of a ring that gives zero when multiplied by another nonzero element, as 2 · 3 = 0 in the integers modulo 6.

Zero Emission Credit program

A Zero Emission Credit program is a state policy requiring utilities to buy credits for the zero-emissions attributes of nuclear power, keeping financially struggling plants like New York's running.

Zero emissions commitment

The zero emissions commitment (ZEC) is the expected change in global temperature after human CO2 emissions cease, best estimated by the IPCC as near zero.

Zero Energy Ready Home

Zero Energy Ready Home is a US Department of Energy certification for new homes that are 40% to 50% more energy efficient than typical code-minimum homes.

Zero Escape

Zero Escape: Japanese adventure game trilogy (999, Virtue's Last Reward, Zero Time Dilemma / 刻のジレンマ) by Kotaro Uchikoshi at Spike Chunsoft, mixing visual novel storytelling with escape-room puzzles in a death game run by Zero.

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (Japanese: Good People Die) is a 2012 adventure visual novel by Chunsoft for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita, the second Zero Escape game.

Zero for Conduct

Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège) is Jean Vigo's 1933 French short about boarding school boys rebelling against their teachers; banned in France until 1945, it inspired The 400 Blows and if....

Zero Gravity Corporation

Zero Gravity Corporation, founded in 1993 by Peter Diamandis, is an American company that sells weightless flights aboard a modified Boeing 727, G-Force One, and was the first FAA-approved provider, flying NASA research missions from 2008.

Zero Hedge

Zero Hedge, also known as Zerohedge.com, is a pseudonymous financial news and opinion website launched in 2009, publishing market commentary and political content under the byline Tyler Durden.

Zero Hour (video game)

Zero Hour (video game): tactical FPS by Bangladesh's AttritoM7 Productions, Steam early access 2020, 1.0 in 2024; 5v5 PvP and co-op set in Bangladesh, distinct from C&C Generals Zero Hour.

Zero liquid discharge

Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is a wastewater management strategy that recovers all water for reuse and converts dissolved contaminants into solid salt for disposal or sale.

Zero moment point

The zero moment point (ZMP) is a balance criterion for bipedal humanoid robots, introduced by Miomir Vukobratović in the 1960s and still widely used in walking control.

Zero Mostel

Zero Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel, 1915-1977), American actor and painter; three Tonys for Rhinoceros, Forum, Fiddler on the Roof; blacklisted after 1955 HUAC; The Producers.

Zero Motorcycles

Zero Motorcycles is an American electric motorcycle manufacturer founded in 2006 by Neal Saiki, a former NASA engineer, in Santa Cruz, California, and known for its Z-Force powertrain and Cypher operating system.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is ZA/UM's espionage RPG, released May 21, 2026 on PC. Players control disgraced spy Hershel Wilk (CASCADE) in Portofiro, using dice skill checks, no combat, Conditioning, and Exertion.

Zero Punctuation

Zero Punctuation is Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's weekly video game review series on The Escapist, running 2007 to 2023, known for rapid-fire comedic commentary over crude cartoons; it continues as Fully Ramblomatic on Second Wind.

Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is a programming competition created in 2009 by MIT and astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in which students write code for satellites aboard the International Space Station.

Zero Routine Flaring by 2030

Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 is a voluntary World Bank and United Nations initiative, launched in 2015, to end routine flaring of natural gas at oil production sites by 2030.

Zero se Restart

Zero se Restart (जीरो से रिस्टार्ट) is a 2024 Hindi documentary by Jaskunwar Kohli, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, documenting the making of 12th Fail; it premiered at IFFI Goa, released 13 December 2024, and streams on Prime Video.

Zero sharp

Zero sharp (0#) is a real number in set theory whose existence, a large-cardinal hypothesis, implies the universe V is very different from the constructible universe L.

Zero Time Dilemma

Zero Time Dilemma (Zero Escape: Toki no Dilemma) is a 2016 adventure game by Chime, the third Zero Escape entry by Kotaro Uchikoshi, set in 2028 between 999 and Virtue's Last Reward, told in non-linear 90-minute memory-wiped fragments with a Decision Game requiring six deaths.