Z (disambiguation)

Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet.

Z may also refer to:

Film and television

• Z (1969 film), a 1969 Algerian-French thriller film based on the murder of a Greek politician.
• Z (1999 film), a 1999 Indian mystery-thriller film (in Kannada language)
• Z (2019 film), a 2019 Canadian horror film
• Z movie, a description for low-budget films
• The Lost City of Z (film), 2017 biopic about explorer Percy Fawcett
• Project Z (film), Telugu language version of the science fiction thriller Maayavan
• Z-Cars, a British police procedural TV drama series
• Z: The Beginning of Everything, television series about the life of Zelda Fitzgerald
• Elizabeth "Z" Delgado, a Power Rangers: S.P.D. character
• Z, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters
• Z-4195, often called "Z", a worker ant, the protagonist of Antz
• Ultraman Z, a 2020 tokusatsu series
• World War Z (film), a 2013 zombie horror film
• Attack Force Z, a 1982 film

Music

• Z (Aion album)
• Z (EP)
• Z (My Morning Jacket album)
• Z number, prefix for works of Henry Purcell in the Zimmerman catalog
• Project Z (band), band for which Jimmy Herring played
• WHTZ, or Z 100, an iHeartRadio station in New York City
• "Z", a song by Gayle that was released in 2020

Literature

• "Z", a pseudonym of Ezra Pound
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Fowler
• Z, a novel by Vassilis Vassilikos
• Z, a play by Anne Szumigalski

Mathematics

• Z-score, a concept in statistics
• zepto- (z), an SI prefix meaning 10⁻²¹
• zetta- (Z), an SI prefix meaning 10²¹
• $\mathbb {Z}$, the set of integer numbers
  • $\mathbb {Z} /n\mathbb {Z}$, the set of all integers modulo n.
  • $\mathbb {Z} _{p}$, the set of all p-adic integers or sometimes the set of all integers modulo n.
• Z, symbol for plastic section modulus, a geometric property
• Z, the number 35 in base 36 and higher
• z-axis, part of the Cartesian coordinate system

Computing

• .Z (disambiguation), a file extension
• Z (video game), a 1996 computer game
• Z notation, a specification language for computing systems
• z-buffering, the management of depth for 3-D graphics
• Z-machine, a virtual machine used by Infocom for text adventure games
• z/OS, a 64 bit operating system for mainframe computers
• Z or ZF or Z flag, designations for the zero flag register
• HP Z, a PC workstation brand of Hewlett Packard
• Z (high impedance), one of the states in three-state logic

Natural sciences

• Z boson, an elementary particle
• Z, symbol for atomic number (the number of protons in an atom's nucleus)
• Z, symbol for compressibility factor (a thermodynamic property)
• Z, symbol for metallicity (the mass proportion of an astronomical object that is neither hydrogen nor helium)
• Z, abbreviation for carboxybenzyl (an organic compound)
• $z$, the degree of redshift in astronomical spectroscopy
• Z, a descriptor for stereoisomers with a double bond in E-Z notation
• Z, the number of formula units per unit cell in a crystalline solid
• Z Pulsed Power Facility, an X-ray generator
• Z chromosome
• Haplogroup Z

Transportation

• Z (New York City Subway service)
• Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line, a subway service operated by the Tokyo Metro, labeled
• , the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Fukuen Line.
• Honda Z, a kei car
• Honda Z series, a line of minibikes
• Nissan Z-car, a series of sports cars
• Kawasaki Z series, a series of motorcycles
• Lincoln Z, a mid-size luxury sedan
• HiPhi Z, an executive car
• BMW Z, a series of sports cars

Military

• Zulu, the military time zone code for UTC
• Z (military symbol), a symbol used by Russian military vehicles during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Operation Z, the Japanese code name for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in its planning stages
• Operation Z (1944), the initial Japanese plan for the defense of the Marianas Islands in WWII
• Force Z, the British naval squadron sunk off Malaya in 1941
• Plan Z, a German naval construction program
• Class Z Reserve, contingent of the British Army
• Project Z (bomber project) of World War II Japan
• Z-4 Plan, a proposal to settle the Croatian War of Independence
• Hypothesis Z, a Romanian war plan for World War I

Organisations

• Together (Zajedno), a political party in Serbia
• Z Energy, a New Zealand energy processing company
• Z Corporation, a computer printer company
• Z Communications, an activist media group, publishers of Z Magazine
• Z, a brand logo of Zed Books (a publishing company in London)
• Z, stock trading symbol for the Zillow Group

People

• Zendaya, American actress and singer sometimes going by the nickname "Z"

Other uses

• Z flag, one of the international maritime signal flags
• Z-plan castle, a form of castle design common in England and Scotland
• Z (cartoonist)
• Z (joke line), an American dial-a-joke service of the 1970s and 1980s
• Z scale, a 1:220 model railway scale
• z, the IPA symbol for a voiced alveolar sibilant sound
• Lost City of Z, a hypothetical ancient city in Brazil
• Z (underaged killer), placeholder designation of an unnamed 15-year-old minor who committed the 2001 murder of Annie Leong under the orders of her husband Anthony Ler in Singapore
• Suzanne "Z" Yang, American Girl character
• Z, the main antagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 3

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Z
• All pages with titles containing Z
• Wolfsangel, a Z-shaped symbol
• Ž, Ż, Ź, Ze (Cyrillic), Ezh and Ro (kana)
• Z with stroke, Ƶ character
• Big Z (disambiguation)
• Channel Z (disambiguation)
• Z Channel (disambiguation)
• Z Force (disambiguation)
• Z Plan (disambiguation)
• Zed (disambiguation)
• Zee (disambiguation)
• ZZ (disambiguation)
• Zzz (disambiguation)
• Zzzz (disambiguation)