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 Kr ...

, a river in western Siberia, Russia * Taz Estuary, 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 at ...

(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, B ...

, American rock drummer *

Taz (singer) Tarsame Singh Saini (23 May 1967 – 29 April 2022), also known as Taz Stereo Nation and previously Johnny Zee, was a British singer, composer and actor of Indian descent. He was the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in ...

, a British Indian singer *

TaZ Taz or TAZ may refer to: Geography * Taz (river), a river in western Siberia, Russia * Taz Estuary, the estuary of the river Taz in Russia People * Taz people, an ethnic group in Russia ** Taz language, a form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken ...

(born 1986), nickname of Wiktor Wojtas, Polish ''Counter-Strike'' player * Taz (wrestler) (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 Trnavské automobilové závody (TAZ) was an automobile manufacturer in Trnava, Slovakia, that produced cars between 1973 and 1999. When the company folded the manufacturing rights to the van TAZ 1500 (earlier Škoda 1203) was bought by Ocelot ...

, a Slovakian car manufacturer * Tvornica Autobusa Zagreb, a Croatian bus and truck manufacturer

Science

TAZ zinc finger In molecular biology, TAZ zinc finger (Transcription Adaptor putative Zinc finger) domains are zinc-containing domains found in the homologous transcriptional co-activators CREB-binding protein (CBP) and the P300. CBP and P300 are histone acet ...

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

Video games

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Taz Express ''Taz Express'' is a video game for the Nintendo 64, that was released only in Europe and Australia in 2000. Gameplay The Tasmanian devil's wife made Taz get a job where he delivers mail. In the game, the player controls Taz and must deliver cr ...

'', 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 ...

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Taz Taz or TAZ may refer to: Geography * Taz (river), a river in western Siberia, Russia * Taz Estuary, the estuary of the river Taz in Russia People * Taz people, an ethnic group in Russia ** Taz language, a form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken ...

'', 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 microprocess ...

* '' 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 ...

, PC, PlayStation 2 and

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Other uses

* Tasmanian Devil (''Looney Tunes''), a cartoon character *''

Die Tageszeitung ''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...

'', 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 Br ...

'', a 1985 book by Hakim Bey * TAZ 90 (camouflage), 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 dist ...

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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 bro ...

'', 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