BZ may refer to:

Chemistry

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. The only common element in ...

, example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics * 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate, an odorless military

incapacitating agent Incapacitating agent is a chemical or biological agent which renders a person unable to harm themselves or others, regardless of consciousness. Lethal agents are primarily intended to kill, but incapacitating agents can also kill if administered ...

with NATO code BZ *

Benzimidazole Benzimidazole is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound. This bicyclic compound may be viewed as fused rings of the aromatic compounds benzene and imidazole. It is a white solid that appears in form of tabular crystals. Preparation Benzimi ...

, an aromatic compound and parasiticide *

Benzodiazepine Benzodiazepines (BZD, BDZ, BZs), colloquially known as "benzos", are a class of central nervous system (CNS) depressant, depressant drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring. They are prescribed t ...

s, a class of psychoactive drugs * Benzoyl, group (Bz), C₆H₅-CO-, a functional group: acyl derived from benzoic acid *

Bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

, an alloy consisting of ( Cu) Copper and ( Sn) tin * Benzscaline, a serotonin receptor agonist and possible serotonergic psychedelic

Entertainment

* B'z, a Japanese musical group * Blue Zone (band), credited as "B.Z." for the 1998 cover of the song "Jackie" by Joanne Accom * '' Beyond Zork'', a computer game released by Infocom in 1987 * ''Border Zone'' (video game)

Periodicals

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Badische Zeitung The ''Badische Zeitung'' (''Baden Newspaper'') is a German newspaper based in Freiburg im Breisgau, covering the South Western part of Germany and the Black Forest region. It has a circulation of 145,825 and a readership of 409,000. The paper was ...

'', Freiburg(Germany) * ''

Braunschweiger Zeitung The ''Braunschweiger Zeitung'' is a daily regional newspaper serving Braunschweig, Germany and surrounding towns and villages in Brunswick Land. It is operated by the BZV Medienhaus GmbH, headquartered in Braunschweig. Local editions There are ...

'', Braunschweig * ''B.Z.'' (newspaper), Berlin *

Berliner Zeitung The ''Berliner Zeitung'' (; ) is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in East Germany in 1945, it is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since Reunification of Germany, reunification. It is published by Berl ...

, also Berlin *

Berner Zeitung ''Berner Zeitung'' (literally: "Journal of Bern"), also branded as ''BZ'', is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Tamedia in Bern. History and profile ''Berner Zeitung'' was first issued on 3 January 1979. Four different pape ...

, Bern *

Byzantinische Zeitschrift Byzantinische Zeitschrift (abbr. BZ and ByzZ) is a Byzantine studies journal established in 1892 by Karl Krumbacher. It is currently published by De Gruyter. After Krumbacher's death it was edited by Paul Marc (1909–1927) and Kaspar Ernst August ...

, a German academic journal

Places

Bautzen Bautzen () or Budyšin (), until 1868 ''Budissin'' in German, is a town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and the administrative centre of the Bautzen (district), district of Bautzen. It is located on the Spree (river), Spree river, is the eighth most ...

, Germany (vehicle registration code BZ) *

Belize Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. P ...

(ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code) *

Province of Bolzano South Tyrol ( , ; ; ), officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province ...

or South Tyrol, Italy (vehicle registration code BZ) *

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

(World Meteorological Organization country code) *

Buitenzorg Bogor City (), or Bogor (, ), is a landlocked city in the West Java, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.

or Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia *

Buzău Buzău (; formerly spelled ''Buzeu'' or ''Buzĕu'') is a city in the historical region of Muntenia, Romania, and the county seat of Buzău County. It lies near the right bank of the Buzău River, between the south-eastern curvature of the Carp ...

, Romania (vehicle registration code BZ)

Technology

* .bz, the country code top-level domain for Belize *

bzip2 bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It only compresses single files and is not a file archiver. It relies on separate external utilities such as tar for tasks such as handli ...

, an algorithm for data compression *

Bugzilla Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 19 ...

, a web-based error tracker and testing tool * ''Busy'', in Internet slang (from the pronunciation "bee-zee") *

Toyota bZ series The Toyota bZ series ("beyond Zero") is a family of battery electric vehicles (BEV) manufactured by Toyota. It was introduced in April 2021 alongside the Toyota bZ4X, bZ4X Concept. The bZ series is a part of Toyota's plan to introduce 15 batter ...

, a family of electric vehicles

Other uses

* Bobby Zamora (born 1981), English footballer nicknamed 'BZ' * Bravo Zulu, a naval signal meaning 'well done' *

Brent Crude Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercon ...

, a trading classification of crude oil (futures trading symbol BZ on the NYMEX exchange) *

Brillouin zone In mathematics and solid state physics, the first Brillouin zone (named after Léon Brillouin) is a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space Reciprocal lattice is a concept associated with solids with translational symmetry whic ...

, in mathematics and solid-state physics, a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space * Blue Dart Aviation (IATA airline code), a cargo airline based in Chennai, India & Kolkata, India * Keystone Air Service (1985-2015, IATA airline code), an airline that served Manitoba, Canada *

Squatting Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building (usually residential) that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there wer ...