All articles starting with Z

ZeroZeroZero

ZeroZeroZero: eight-episode Sky/Amazon crime drama (2020) adapted from Roberto Saviano's nonfiction book, directed by Stefano Sollima, tracing a cocaine shipment from Mexican cartels through 'Ndrangheta buyers; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Zersenay Tadese

Zersenay Tadese (ዘርኢሰናይ•ታደሰ), Eritrean distance runner born 1982; 2004 Olympic 10,000m bronze, Eritrea's first Olympic medal; 2007 world cross country champion; half marathon world record 58:23 (2010).

Zersetzung

Zersetzung ("decomposition"), a covert psychological repression method of the East German Stasi defined in Directive 1/76 of 1976, used rumors, discreditation, and engineered professional and social failures against dissidents, groups, exit applicants, and Christians when arrest was not opportune.

Zerubbabel (זְרֻבָּבֶל)

Zerubbabel (זְרֻבָּבֶל, ゼルバベル), Davidic grandson of Jehoiachin born in Babylonia, was Persian governor (peḥah) of Yehud who with high priest Joshua rebuilt the Second Temple, completed 515 BCE.

Zervae/Zirinae

Zervae/Zirinae (Zirinis, Zervis, Zurbis), a Roman to Late Antique road station on the Via Egnatia in Thrace near Kornofolea, Evros, Greece, on the right bank of the Hebros river.

ZESA Holdings

ZESA Holdings is the state-owned holding company of Zimbabwe's national electricity utility, formed in 1986, overseeing generation, transmission, and distribution, and now being rebundled under the Mutapa Investment Fund.

ZESCO

ZESCO Limited is Zambia's state-owned, vertically integrated electricity utility, formed in 1970, owning about 75 percent of national generation capacity and most transmission and distribution assets.

Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów Adamów Konin

Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów Adamów Konin (ZE PAK) is a Polish energy company based in Konin, formed in 1970 from three lignite plants and now shifting to gas, solar, and nuclear projects.

Sep 19, 2026

Zest-O Corporation

Zest-O Corporation is a privately held Philippine food-and-beverage company founded by Alfredo M. Yao in 1981, known for pioneering ready-to-drink juice in flexible doy pack pouches.

Zestafoni

FC Zestafoni (საფეხბურთო კლუბი ზესტაფონი), Georgian club founded 18 June 2004 by ferro-alloy plant shareholders; champions 2010/11 and 2011/12, cup 2008, Super Cup 2011 and 2012; bankrupt and disqualified in 2015, now in Liga 3.

Zeta (ζήτα)

Zeta (ζήτα, Ζ/ζ) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from Phoenician Zain, valued at 7 in isopsephy, pronounced [zd] then [z], and known for the Riemann zeta function.

Zeta Aurigae

Zeta Aurigae is an eclipsing binary in Auriga where a hot B star is eclipsed by the atmosphere of a cool K supergiant, the prototype of its class.

Oct 22, 2026

Zeta Banovina

Zeta Banovina was one of nine provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941, formed around Montenegro with parts of Serbia, Bosnia, and Dubrovnik.

Zeta cypermethrin

Zeta cypermethrin (FMC 56701), an S-cyano-enriched four-isomer subset of cypermethrin, is a type II pyrethroid insecticide; registered in the US, EU approval withdrawn in 2020, ADI/ARfD 0.0015 mg/kg bw.

Sep 29, 2026

Zeta function regularization

Zeta function regularization is a summation technique that assigns finite values to divergent sums and products, famously giving 1+2+3+… = −1/12, and is used in quantum field theory.

Zeta Geminorum

Zeta Geminorum, also known as Mekbuda, is a bright classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Gemini, pulsating with a period of about 10.15 days.

Zeta Global

Zeta Global is a New York-based marketing technology company founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, listed on the NYSE under ZETA.

Zeta Global Holdings Corp.

Zeta Global Holdings Corp. is a New York-based marketing technology company founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg, offering the AI-powered Zeta Marketing Platform and the Athena conversational AI agent.

Zeta Herculis

Zeta Herculis is a binary star in the constellation Hercules, about 35 light years away, where a G-type subgiant is orbited by a much fainter companion every 34.5 years.

Zeta Lake

Zeta Lake: name of two Canadian lakes, one in Alberta (official CGNDB name since 1949, 53.1664 N, 115.7278 W) and one in Nunavut (70.9 N, 106.42 W, elevation 82 m); also a Devonian stratigraphic member.

Zeta Ophiuchi

Zeta Ophiuchi (ζ Oph) is a massive blue O-type star in Ophiuchus, one of the nearest such stars, plowing through interstellar gas as a runaway star.

Zeta Persei

Zeta Persei is a blue supergiant star of magnitude 2.85 in Perseus, the brightest member of the Perseus OB2 association, expected to end as a supernova.

Zeta Phi Beta

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a historically Black sorority (NPHC Divine Nine), founded January 16, 1920 at Howard University by five founders (Five Pearls); constitutionally bound to Phi Beta Sigma; 125,000+ members worldwide.

Zeta potential (ζ-potential)

Zeta potential (ζ-potential), or electrokinetic potential, is the potential at the slipping plane of a charged solid–liquid interface, reported in millivolts; it governs the stability of colloidal dispersions.

Zeta potential titration

Zeta potential titration is an analytical method that measures the zeta potential of a colloid as pH or ionic reagent concentration changes, revealing the isoelectric point.

Zeta Psi

Zeta Psi (ΖΨ), international men's college fraternity founded June 1, 1847 at New York University by Sommers, Dayton, and Skillman; first fraternity chapters on the US West Coast (1870), in Canada (1879), and at Oxford (2008).

Zeta Puppis

Zeta Puppis is the brightest star in the southern constellation Puppis, an extremely hot and luminous O-type supergiant about 332 parsecs from Earth and a known runaway star.

Zeta Reticuli

Zeta Reticuli (ζ Ret) is a wide binary of two Sun-like G-type stars, ζ1 and ζ2 Reticuli, 39.5 light years away in Reticulum, physically bound, metal-poor, with a debris disk around ζ2 and fame from the 1961 Hill UFO case.

Zeta Tauri

Zeta Tauri (Tianguan, 天关) is one of the brightest Be stars in the northern sky, in Taurus at magnitude 2.7 to 3.2, a spectroscopic binary with a 133-day orbit and a nearly edge-on circumstellar disk.