MZ may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* MZ, a French rap band formed by members of

Les Sages Poètes de la Rue Les Sages Poètes de la Rue (The Wise Poets of the Street): Dany Dan, Melopheelo and Zoxea, are a French hip hop band that has profoundly influenced and keeps influencing their musical genre as a band or through their solo career. History Les S ...

* MZ (formerly

Machine Zone Machine Zone, Inc. (MZ) is an American privately held technology company, founded in 2008 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company is best known for its widely advertised freemium mobile MMO strategy games '' Game of War: Fire Age'' and ...

), developer of ''Game of War: Fire Age'' and other mobile video games * ''

Marvel Zombies ''Marvel Zombies'' is a five-issue limited series published from December 2005 to April 2006 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Robert Kirkman with art by Sean Phillips and covers by Arthur Suydam. It was the first series in the ''Ma ...

'', a Marvel Comics limited series published in 2005–2006 * ''

Mirmo Zibang! ''Mirmo! Zibang'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Shinozuka. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Ciao'' from August 2001 to December 2005, with its chapters collected in twel ...

'', an anime television series * ''

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung The ''Mitteldeutsche Zeitung'' (; ) is a regional daily newspaper for southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Published in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle with several local versions, the paper is owned by M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne. History and profile ...

'', a German newspaper * Mz, Short for Muzi slang word for buddy, pal, mate.

Places

Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code MZ) ** .mz, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Mozambique *

Mizoram Mizoram is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its Capital city, capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar t ...

, a state in northeast India (ISO 3166-2 code IN-MZ)

Technology

Cameras and optics

* MZ, a series of single-lens reflex cameras by

Pentax was a Japanese camera and optical equipment manufacturer. Currently, it exists as the Pentax Life Care Business Division of Hoya's medical endoscope business, as well as the digital camera brand of Ricoh Imaging, a subsidiary of Ricoh. Penta ...

Mach–Zehnder interferometer The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source. The interferometer has been used, among other things, to measure p ...

, an optical device for using light to determine phase shift variations

Computing

* MZ executable, a file type in Microsoft MS-DOS *

Mark Zbikowski Mark "Zibo" Joseph Zbikowski (born March 21, 1956) is a former Microsoft Architect and an early computer Hacker culture, hacker. He started working at the company only a few years after its inception, leading efforts in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo (operat ...

, a former Microsoft programmer whose initials mark the first two bytes of all executable files in DOS and Windows (16- and 32-bit versions) *

Mausezahn (, German for "mouse tooth") is a fast network traffic generator written in C which allows the user to craft nearly every possible and "impossible" packet. Since version 0.31 Mausezahn is open source in terms of the GPLv2. Herbert Haas, the ori ...

, a fast network traffic generator *

Sharp MZ The Sharp MZ is a series of personal computers sold in Japan and Europe (particularly Germany and Great Britain) by Sharp Corporation, Sharp beginning in 1978. History Although commonly believed to stand for "Microcomputer Zilog Z80, Z80", t ...

series, a line of personal computers by Sharp

Transportation

Merpati Nusantara Airlines PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines, operated as Merpati Nusantara Airlines, was an airline in Indonesia based in Central Jakarta, Jakarta. It operated scheduled domestic services to more than 25 destinations in Indonesia, as well as scheduled intern ...

, an Indonesia-based airline (IATA code MZ) *

MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk Motorenwerke Zschopau GmbH (formerly MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk GmbH) is a German motorcycle manufacturer located in Zschopau, Saxony. The acronym MZ since 1956 stands for ''Motorenwerke Zschopau'' GmbH (German language, German for Zschopau e ...

GmbH, a German motorcycle manufacturer * DSB Class MZ, a series of diesel-electric locomotives built 1967–1978 for Danish railway company Danske Statsbaner (DSB) *

Makedonski Železnici Makedonski Železnici (MŽ; , "Macedonian Railways") was the public enterprise for railways in North Macedonia. In 2007 it was split into railway operation company Železnici na Republika Severna Makedonija Transport and the infrastructure compan ...

, the government-owned railway company of Macedonia

Other uses

* ''Mishtara Zva'it'', the Military Police Corps of Israel *

Mixe–Zoque languages The Mixe–Zoque (also Mixe–Zoquean, Mije–Soke, Mije–Sokean) languages are a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe–Zoquean ...

Millennials Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s a ...

and

Generation Z Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2 ...

cohorts, taken togethe