Zeno ( grc, Ζήνων) may refer to:
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Zeno (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
Philosophers
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Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea (; grc, Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known ...
(), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium (; grc-x-koine, Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, ; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (, ), Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 B ...
(333 – 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
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Zeno of Tarsus (3rd century BC), Stoic philosopher
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Zeno of Sidon
Zeno of Sidon ( grc-gre, Ζήνων ὁ Σιδώνιος; c. 150 – c. 75 BC) was a Greek Epicurean philosopher from the Seleucid city of Sidon. His writings have not survived, but there are some epitomes of his lectures preserved among the wr ...
(1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher
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Zeno of Rhodes (not later than 220 BC), historian and politician.
Other persons of antiquity
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Zeno of Caunus
Zenon or Zeno ( el, Ζήνων; 3rd century BC), son of Agreophon, was a public official in Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemaic Egypt around the 250s-230s BC. His writings are known from a cache of papyrus documents which was discovered by archaeologist ...
(3rd century BC), finance minister to the Ptolemies, whose papyri letters (the "Zenon archive") were discovered in the 20th century
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Zeno (physician) (3rd and 2nd centuries BC), Greek physician
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Zeno of Cyprus
Zeno of Cyprus ( grc, Ζήνων ὁ Κύπριος), (4th century), was a Greek physician, a native of Cyprus, and the tutor of Ionicus, Magnus, and Oribasius.Eunapius, ''Vit. Philos.'' Eunapius states that he lived "down to the time of Julian the ...
(4th century), Greek physician
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Zeno of Gaza (died c. 362), early Christian martyr
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Zeno of Verona
Zeno of Verona ( it, Zenone da Verona; about 300 – 371 or 380) was either an early Christian Bishop of Verona or a martyr. He is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Orthodox Church.
Life and historicity
According to a Veronese aut ...
(4th century), saint commemorated in the place name Basilica of San Zeno, Verona, Italy
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Zeno the Hermit
A disciple of St. Basil the Great, Saint Zeno the Hermit began life in a Christian family of privilege and status. From an early age he devoted himself to the study of letters and sciences and quickly distinguished himself and became known to all, ...
(4th century?) disciple of St. Basil and saint
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Zeno (consul 448) Flavius Zeno (''floruit'' 447–451) was an influential general and politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, of Isaurian origin, who served as '' magister militum per Orientem'', and became consul and '' patricius''.
Biography
Zeno was of Isauria ...
(447–451), Roman general and consul
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Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (; grc-gre, Ζήνων, Zénōn; c. 425 – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. Domestic revolts and religious dissension plagued his reign, which nevertheless succeeded to some extent in fore ...
(c. 425 – 491), Roman Emperor
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Zeno (Bishop of Mérida) (5th century), Greek Bishop of Mérida, Extremadura
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Zeno's Conscience'', a novel by Italian writer Italo Svevo
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''Zeno'' (film), a 2009 New Zealand short film
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''Zeno'' (periodical), a German-language journal
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Zeno.org
Zeno.org () is a digital library with German texts and other content such as pictures, facsimile, etc., which has been started by the Directmedia Publishing, Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German Publishing, publishing house and sister enterpri ...
, a German digital library
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''Zeno'' (album), a 2019 album by Muzi
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''Zeno'' Mountain EP a 2020 EP by Guster
*Grand Zeno the Omni-King, a character in the manga
Dragon Ball Super
is a Japanese manga series written by Akira Toriyama and illustrated by Toyotarou. A sequel to Toriyama's original Dragon Ball (manga), ''Dragon Ball'' manga, it follows the adventures of Goku and friends during the ten-year timeskip after ...
*Zeno Zoldyck, a character in the manga
Hunter x Hunter
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products ( fur/ hide, bone/ tusks, horn/antler ...
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Ozone Zeno, a French paraglider design
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Zeno Mountain Farm, a non-profit, year round organization that hosts camps for people with and without disabilities
* Zeno, ancient name for the village of
Akköse
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Zeno, Ohio, a community in the United States
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Zeno (crater), a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
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Zeno (programming language), an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
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Zeno-Watch Basel, a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches
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Quantum Zeno effect
The quantum Zeno effect (also known as the Turing paradox) is a feature of quantum-mechanical systems allowing a particle's time evolution to be slowed down by measuring it frequently enough with respect to some chosen measurement setting.
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, an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state
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San Zeno (disambiguation)
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Xeno (disambiguation)
Xeno may refer to:
Prefix
''xeno''- Greek prefix meaning "foreign"
* "xeno-" as used in taxonomy Geography
* Xeno, Salamis, an area in Salamis Island People
*Xeno Müller (born 1972), Swiss athlete
*Randy Hogan (musician), nicknamed Xeno, the o ...
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Xenon (disambiguation)
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Zenon (disambiguation)
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Zenone (disambiguation)
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Zeno machine
In mathematics and computer science, Zeno machines (abbreviated ZM, and also called accelerated Turing machine, ATM) are a hypothetical computational model related to Turing machines that are capable of carrying out computations involving a c ...
, a hypothetical computational model
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Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plural ...
, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
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Zenonia zeno'', an African butterfly
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Zenos
According to the Book of Mormon, Zenos () was an old world prophet whose pre-Christian era writings were recorded upon the plates of brass. Zenos is quoted or paraphrased a number of times by writers in the ''Book of Mormon'', including Nephi, J ...
, a book of Mormon scripture
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