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Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is MGM's 1941 musical drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, and James Stewart as three Follies showgirls whose lives change after joining Florenz Ziegfeld's revue.
Ziegler process
The Ziegler process, also called the Alfol process, is an industrial method for making linear primary alcohols from ethylene and triethylaluminum, described by Karl Ziegler in 1955.
Ziegler–Natta catalyst
The Ziegler–Natta catalyst, also known as the Ziegler–Natta process, combines a titanium chloride with an organoaluminum compound to polymerize olefins; its discoverers won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ziegler–Nichols method
The Ziegler–Nichols method is a heuristic tuning procedure for P, PI, and PID controllers, published by J. G. Ziegler and N. B. Nichols in 1942 and still widely used.
Ziehl–Neelsen stain
Ziehl–Neelsen stain: acid-fast bacteriological stain for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, developed 1882–1883 from Koch, Ehrlich, Ziehl, Rindfleisch, and Neelsen; carbol fuchsin, heat, acid decolorization; Kinyoun cold variant; auramine fluorescent alternative.
ZIF-8
ZIF-8 (zeolitic imidazolate framework-8) is a metal–organic framework of zinc ions coordinated by 2-methylimidazolate, first reported in 2006 at UCLA and now the most-studied MOF for gas separation membranes.
Ziff Brothers Investments
Ziff Brothers Investments is a New York family office that managed the fortune of brothers Dirk, Robert, and Daniel Ziff, heirs to the Ziff-Davis publishing business.
Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis, also known as Ziff Davis Media, is an American digital media company founded in Chicago in 1927 as a magazine publisher, known for PC Magazine and owning CNET.
ZiFM Stereo
ZiFM Stereo is a commercial radio station in Harare, Zimbabwe, launched in 2012 as the country's first privately owned commercial radio station, breaking the state broadcaster's monopoly.
Zig
Zig, formerly ZigPay, is a Brazilian entertainment-technology company based in São Paulo that provides ticketing, cashless payments, and management software for bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and events like Rock in Rio.
Zig (programming language)
Zig is a systems programming language created by Andrew Kelley in 2016 as an alternative to C, featuring compile-time code execution and explicit memory management.
Zig & Sharko
Zig & Sharko (Zig et Sharko) is a French non-dialogue slapstick animated series by Xilam, created by Olivier Jean-Marie, premiering on Canal+ December 21, 2010: hyena Zig schemes to eat mermaid Marina, foiled by Sharko the shark.
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar, born Hillary Hinton Ziglar, was an American salesman turned motivational speaker and author who wrote See You at the Top and founded his namesake sales-training company in 1977.
Zig-Zag
Zig-Zag was a Chilean weekly illustrated magazine published in Santiago from 1905 to 1964, the first miscellany magazine in Hispanic America and the founding title of Editorial Zig-Zag.
Zigakibart
Zigakibart (BION-1301, FUB523) is a Novartis humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody blocking APRIL, in phase 3 (BEYOND, NCT05852938) for IgA nephropathy, with phase 1/2 data showing 60% proteinuria reduction and eGFR stabilization.
Zigang Dong
Zigang Dong (董子钢) is a Chinese-born molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for work on signal transduction in chemoprevention, now a vice president of Zhengzhou University.
Zigbang
Zigbang (직방) is a Seoul-based South Korean property technology company, founded by Ahn Sung-woo in 2010, whose rental listing platform became a 2022 unicorn valued at KRW 2.5 trillion before its valuation fell sharply.
Zigbee
Zigbee is an open, low-power wireless mesh networking standard for the Internet of Things, built on IEEE 802.15.4 and maintained by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Zigeunerweisen (ツィゴイネルワイゼン)
Zigeunerweisen (ツィゴイネルワイゼン) is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki, adapted from Uchida Hyakken. It is a "Romantic Trilogy" film that won the 4th Japan Academy Best Picture.
Zigg Capital
Zigg Capital is a New York venture capital firm, led by David Eisenberg and Ryan Orley, that invests in technology at the intersection of real estate, construction, and retail.
Ziggurat
Ziggurat (Akkadian ziqqurratu, temple-tower): solid stepped Mesopotamian temple tower of mud brick raising a shrine to the city god, built from the 3rd millennium until about 500 BCE; unlike Egyptian pyramids it was a temple, not a tomb.
Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu
The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu is a Kassite-era mudbrick temple tower at 'Aqar Quf, about 30 km northwest of Baghdad, built under King Kurigalzu and dedicated to the god Enlil.
Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat of Ur, also called the Great Ziggurat, is a Neo-Sumerian staged temple tower at Ur, Iraq, built by Ur-Nammu around 2100 BC for the moon god Nanna; best preserved of Mesopotamian ziggurats, excavated by Woolley, UNESCO-listed since 2016.
Ziggy Heath
Ziggy Heath (Zygmunt Lawrence Giedroyc Heath, b. 1991) is a British actor, LAMDA graduate, known for Peggy Bettinson in A Thousand Blows, One Life, How to Build a Girl, Harlots, and RSC stage roles; married to Jessica Brown Findlay.
Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley, born David Nesta Marley in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Jamaican reggae singer and guitarist, the eldest son of Bob Marley, with a record eight Best Reggae Album Grammys.
Ziggy Sobotka
Chester Karol "Ziggy" Sobotka is a fictional character in The Wire season 2 (2003), played by James Ransone; Frank Sobotka's son, a port cargo checker drawn into drug dealing and car theft, who kills Glekas and is imprisoned.
Ziggy Stardust (character)
Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie's androgynous alien rock-star alter ego from the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, debuted 1972, retired at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
Zigong
Zigong (子贡), courtesy name of Duanmu Ci, was a disciple of Confucius of the late Spring and Autumn period, remembered as a diplomat, merchant, and devoted mourner.
Zigong UNESCO Global Geopark
Zigong UNESCO Global Geopark (自贡) is a geopark in Sichuan, China, designated in 2015, known for Middle Jurassic dinosaur fossil sites at Dashanpu and a 2,000-year-old well-salt industry.
Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor, capital of Senegal's Ziguinchor Region and main city of Casamance on the Casamance River; regional population 628,865 (2024), rice farming, urban agriculture, MFDC conflict since 1982 with 2025 peace accord, airport and Agropole Sud projects.