ALL meanings of z
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Z z - noun Technical meaning of z /zed/
1. (After Zermelo-Fränkel set theory) A specification language developed by the Programming Research Group at Oxford University around 1980. Z is used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is based on axiomatic set theory and first order predicate logic. Z is written using many non-ASCII symbols. It was used in the IBM CICS project. See also Z++. 2. (language, simulation) A stack-based, complex arithmetic simulation language from ZOLA Technologies. 1 - noun plural z the 26th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. 1
- noun plural z any spoken sound represented by the letter Z or z, as in zero, zigzag, or buzzer. 1
- noun plural z something having the shape of a Z . 1
- noun plural z a written or printed representation of the letter Z or z. 1
- noun plural z a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter Z or z. 1
- noun z the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (Z, ζ). 1
- noun z the consonant sound represented by this letter. 1
- variable noun z Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. 0
- noun z the 26th and last letter and the 20th consonant of the modern English alphabet 0
- noun z a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually a voiced alveolar fricative, as in zip 0
- noun z something shaped like a Z 0
- noun z (in combination) 0
- symbol z the z-axis or a coordinate measured along the z-axis in a Cartesian or cylindrical coordinate system 0
- symbol z an algebraic variable 0
- symbol z any unknown, variable, or unspecified factor, number, person, or thing 0
- symbol z atomic number 0
- symbol z impedance 0
- abbreviation Z zone 0
- symbol z zaïre 0
- abbreviation Z Zambia (international car registration) 0
- noun z zenith distance 0
- abbreviation Z zetta- 0
- noun z the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet: via Latin from the Greek zeta 0
- noun z any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (z) of zone 0
- noun z a type or impression for z or Z 0
- noun z the twenty-sixth in a sequence or group 0
- noun z an object shaped like Z 0
- noun z sleep 0
- adjective z of z or Z 0
- adjective z twenty-sixth in a sequence or group 0
- adjective z shaped like Z 0
- noun z the third of a set of unknown quantities, x and y usually being the first two 0
- noun z a variable 0
- abbreviation Z zepto- 0
- abbreviation Z zero 0
- letter z The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed or zee and written in the Latin script. 0