CZ, C-Z, C/Z, or Cz may refer to:
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
, ISO 3166 country code CZ
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.cz
.cz is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Czech Republic. It is administered by CZ.NIC. Registrations must be ordered via accredited domain name registrars.
Until Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1993, it used the domain '' .cs''. ...
, internet country code top-level domain for the Czech Republic
Businesses and organisations
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C/Z Records
C/Z Records was a Seattle-based punk rock record label that was established in early 1985 by Chris Hanzsek and Tina Casale. It started with the release of '' Deep Six'' which collected the earliest recordings of what later came to be known as ...
, an American record label
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Česká zbrojovka firearms
CZ stands for Česká zbrojovka which means Czech Armory. Most CZ-marked firearms are connected with Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (ČZUB) – a Czech firearms manufacturer founded 1936. CZ is a registered trade mark.
History
Historically th ...
(ČZ)
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Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod
Česká zbrojovka a.s. Uherský Brod (CZUB) is an engineering company based in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic whose main activities include the production of service, hunting and sports firearms. It is owned by the Czech holding company Colt CZ ...
, a Czech firearms manufacturer
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CZ-USA, U.S. division
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Česká zbrojovka Strakonice
Česká is a municipality and village in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
Česká lies approximately north-west of Brno and south-east of Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Prah ...
(ČZ a.s.), a Czech manufacturer of forklifts and formerly motorcycles and firearms
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Cizeta
Cizeta Automobili SRL is a car manufacturer in the U.S. and one time headquartered in Modena, Italy, set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli, an Italian auto engineer, and Lamborghini driver, and the record producer Giorgio Moroder.
Histo ...
, an Italian car manufacturer named for its founder, Claudio Zampolli (C.Z.)
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China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acqu ...
, IATA airline designator CZ
Science and technology
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Cubic zirconia
Cubic zirconia (CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). The synthesized material is hard and usually colorless, but may be made in a variety of different colors. It should not be confused with zircon, which is a zirco ...
, a synthetic gemstone
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Haplogroup CZ (mtDNA)
In human mitochondrial genetics, the Haplogroup CZ is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup CZ is a descendant of haplogroup M8 and is a parent to the haplogroups C and Z. The C and Z subclades share a common ancesto ...
, in human mitochondrial genetics
* Controlled Z gate, a type of
Quantum logic gate
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Long March (rocket family)
The Long March rockets are a family of expendable launch system rockets operated by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The rockets are named after the Chinese Red Army's 1934–35 Long March military retreat during the Chi ...
, or Chang Zheng
* Cz, an EEG electrode site according to the
10-20 system
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Changpeng Zhao
Changpeng Zhao (), commonly known as "CZ", is a Chinese-Canadian business executive. Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of July 2022. CZ was born in Jiangsu, China and mov ...
, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance
Other uses
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Cz (digraph)
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ'').
Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...
, in the Polish language
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Casa Zimbabwe
Casa Zimbabwe, commonly referred to as CZ, is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California housing 124 residents. It is the second largest non-apartment style unit of the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), behind Cloyne Court Hotel. Op ...
, a student housing unit in Berkeley, California, U.S.
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Citizendium
Citizendium ( ; "the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia.
It was first announced in September 2006 as a fork of the Engli ...
, an online encyclopedia project
* CZ, vehicle registration prefix of
Province of Catanzaro
The province of Catanzaro ( it, provincia di Catanzaro; Catanzarese: ) is a province of the Calabria region of Italy. The city Catanzaro is both capital of the province and capital of the region of Calabria. The province contains a total of 8 ...
, Italy
* Cz, a
character from ''Scrapped Princess''
See also
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