DZ, Dz, or dz may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

DarkZero Esports DarkZero Esports, or simply DarkZero (DZ), is an American esports organization. Founded in 2018, DarkZero participates in competitive ''Rainbow Six Siege.'' Founding and structure An American organization, DarkZero Esports was founded in 2018 by ...

, an American esports organization *

Delftsche Zwervers The Studentenstam De Delftsche Zwervers (Delft Rovers Student Crew) is a student society in Delft, 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 ...

, a Dutch student society and rover crew *

Delta Zeta Delta Zeta (, also known as DZ) is an international college Fraternities and sororities in North America, sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Delta Zeta has 163 collegiate chapters in the United States and C ...

, a college sorority in the USA *

Discovery Zone Discovery Zone (DZ) was an American chain of entertainment facilities featuring games and elaborate indoor mazes designed for young children, including roller slides, climbing play structures, and ball pits. It also featured arcade games. A t ...

, an American children's entertainment business from 1989 to 2001 and currently since 2020. *

Donghai Airlines Donghai Airlines is an airline headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, with its base at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. History The company was started in November 2002 as Jetwin Cargo Airline, with 2005 being the originally anticipated l ...

, the IATA code for this airline.

In language

Dz (digraph) Dz is a digraph of the Latin script, consisting of the consonants D and Z. It may represent , , or , depending on the language. Usage by language ''Dz'' generally represents in Latin alphabets, including Hungarian, Kashubian, Latvian, L ...

, used in Polish, Kashubian, Macedonian, Slovak, Esperanto, Hungarian, Dene Suline (Chipewyan) and the ILE romanization of Cantonese *

Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code) * Voiced alveolar sibilant affricate or , as in the English word "adze"

People

* John Drewienkiewicz, British soldier * Dolph Ziggler, American professional wrestler

In science and technology

*d''z'', in calculus, notation for the differential of a variable ''z'' *DZ, METAR code for

drizzle Drizzle is a light precipitation which consists of liquid water drops that are smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation r ...

Other uses

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code) ** .dz, Algeria's internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) *

Demilitarized zone A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies along an established frontier or boundary ...

, a buffer zone between military powers *

Drop zone A drop zone (DZ) is a place where parachutists or parachuted supplies land. It can be an area targeted for landing by paratroopers and airborne forces, or a base from which recreational parachutists and skydivers take off in aircraft and land ...

, as in a parachuting drop zone *contraction for

dozen A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year ...

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