DZ
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DZ or dz may refer to:
  • Delftsche Zwervers
    Delftsche Zwervers
    The Studentenstam De Delftsche Zwervers is a student society in Delft, the Netherlands. Dating from 1915, it is the world's oldest student Scouting group, first as a club for former Scouts, from 1920 as a Rover crew. They are housed in the Scout Centre "Kruithuis", the monumental gunpowder...

    , a Dutch student society and rover crew
  • Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...

    , a college sorority in the USA
  • Dimension Zero (Swedish band), a melodic death metal band
  • Discovery Zone
    Discovery Zone
    Discovery Zone was a chain of entertainment facilities featuring games and elaborate indoor mazes designed for young children, including slides, climbing play structures and ball pits. The chain was founded by Ronald Matsch, Jim Jorgensen, Mike Geselbracht and Dr. David Schoenstadt in 1989. The...

    , a playland and birthday party place for kids similar to Chuck E. Cheese's that went out of business in the late-1990s
  • Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a 300 pound Vegas Elvis impersonator. Over the years they would also perform songs originally by Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and The Yardbirds. The group toured extensively around the...

    , a reggae influenced Led Zeppelin cover band fronted by an Elvis impersonator
  • Drop zone
    Drop zone
    A drop zone is a place where parachutists or parachuted supplies land. It can be an area targeted for landing by paratroopers, or a base from which recreational parachutists and skydivers take off in aircraft and land under parachutes...

    , as in a parachuting drop zone
  • Dragonball Z, a TV series
  • The differential
    Differential (calculus)
    In calculus, a differential is traditionally an infinitesimally small change in a variable. For example, if x is a variable, then a change in the value of x is often denoted Δx . The differential dx represents such a change, but is infinitely small...

     of z
  • Nick Nemeth
    Nick Nemeth
    Nicholas Theodore "Nick" Nemeth is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE performing on its Raw brand under the ring name Dolph Ziggler. He is the reigning WWE United States Champion...

    , American professional wrestler also known as Dolph Ziggler


In languages dz may represent:
  • Dzongkha language
    Dzongkha language
    Dzongkha , occasionally Ngalopkha, is the national language of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language spoken in the dzong, – dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century."Bhutani" is not another name for...

     ISO 639
    ISO 639
    ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for language and language groups....

     alpha-2 code
  • Dz (digraph)
    Dz (digraph)
    Dz is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Polish, Kashubian, Macedonian, Slovak, and Hungarian to represent . In Dene Suline and Cantonese Pinyin it represents .-In Polish:dz generally represents...

    , a digraph in the Polish, Macedonian, Slovak and Hungarian alphabets
  • the voiced alveolar affricate
    Voiced alveolar affricate
    The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dz⟩.-Features:...



As a code DZ or dz may represent:
  • Algeria
    Algeria
    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

     2-letter ISO 3166-1
    ISO 3166-1
    ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

     country code
    Country code
    Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...

  • the METAR
    METAR
    METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting....

     code for Drizzle
    Drizzle
    Drizzle is a light rain precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain, and generally smaller than 0.5 mm in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation rates due to drizzle are on the order of a millimetre...


See also

  • .dz
    .dz
    .dz is the country code top-level domain for Algeria. It is administered by Network Internet Center. DZ, a subdivision of CERIST . To apply for a .dz domain name, one must be an organization with a permanent presence in Algeria, and choose a name of three or more letters...

    , Algeria's Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD)
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