Taz or TAZ may refer to:

Geography

Taz (river) The Taz (russian: Таз) is a river located in western Siberia, has a length of and drains a basin estimated at . Its middle and lower course are located within Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, while its upper course borders with Krasnoyarsk Kra ...

, a river in western Siberia, Russia *

Taz Estuary The Taz Estuary (russian: Тазовская губа) is a long gulf formed by the Taz River. It consists of a roughly long estuary that begins in the area of the settlement of Tazovsky and ends in the Gulf of Ob, which is connected with ...

, the estuary of the river Taz in Russia

People

* Taz people, an ethnic group in Russia ** Taz language, a form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken by the Taz people *

Taz Anderson Tazwell Leigh Anderson Jr. (November 15, 1938 – September 26, 2016) was an American football player who played for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team and professionally for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Falcons. While a ...

(1938–2016), American football player *

Taz Bentley Patrick Bentley, better known as Taz or The Taz, is an American rock and roll drummer. He got his start as a founding member of the local Dallas punk band, The Assassins, and is probably best known for his work with The Reverend Horton Heat, ...

, American rock drummer * Taz (singer), a British Indian singer * TaZ (born 1986), nickname of Wiktor Wojtas, Polish ''Counter-Strike'' player *

Taz (wrestler) Peter Senerchia (born October 11, 1967), better known by the ring name Taz (also spelled Tazz) is an American radio personality, color commentator, and retired professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a commentator and manage ...

(born 1967), ring name of pro wrestler Peter Senerchia * Taz, Rabbi David HaLevi Segal, author of ''Turei Zahav''

Companies

* Tata Ace Zip, a micro-truck built by Tata Motors in India * Trnavské automobilové závody, a Slovakian car manufacturer * Tvornica Autobusa Zagreb, a Croatian bus and truck manufacturer

Science

* TAZ zinc finger, zinc-containing domains found in several transcriptional co-activators *"TAZ", the gene for muscle protein

tafazzin Tafazzin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''TAFAZZIN'' gene. Tafazzin is highly expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle, and functions as a phospholipid- lysophospholipid transacylase (it belongs to phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltr ...

*"TAZ", a transcription regulator protein encoded by the gene ''

WWTR1 WW domain-containing transcription regulator protein 1 (WWTR1), also known as Transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''WWTR1'' gene. WWTR1 acts as a transcriptional coregulator a ...

Video games

*'' Taz Express'', a 2000 video game for the

Nintendo 64 The (N64) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo. The successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was released on June 23, 1996, in Japan, on September 29, 1996, in North America, and on March 1, 1997, in Europe and ...

*'' Taz'', a 1983 video game for the

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600, initially branded as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) from its release until November 1982, is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977, it popularized microprocesso ...

* '' Taz: Wanted'', a 2002 video game for the

Nintendo GameCube The is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (1996), and predecessor of the Wii ...

, PC, PlayStation 2 and

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Other uses

* Tasmanian Devil (''Looney Tunes''), a cartoon character *'' Die Tageszeitung'', known as ''taz'', a German daily newspaper *''

Temporary Autonomous Zone ''T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone'' is a book by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio (). It is composed of three sections, "Chaos: The B ...

'', a 1985 book by Hakim Bey *

TAZ 90 (camouflage) This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms ha ...

, Swiss military camouflage *"T.A.Z.", a song by Black Label Society from their debut album ''

Sonic Brew ''Sonic Brew'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Black Label Society, released on October 28, 1998 in Japan and May 4, 1999 in the US by Spitfire Records. Unlike the albums that followed, this album still possessed a distin ...

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The Adventure Zone ''The Adventure Zone'' is a weekly comedy and adventure actual play podcast based loosely upon the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game series, along with other role-playing games. The show is distributed by the Maximum Fun network and hosted by brother ...

'', a comedy ''Dungeons & Dragons'' podcast

Acronyms

Traffic analysis zone A traffic analysis zone or transportation analysis zone (TAZ) is the unit of geography most commonly used in conventional transportation planning models. The size of a zone varies, but for a typical metropolitan planning software, a zone of under 3, ...

, a unit in transportation planning models