Zeno may refer to:
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Zeno (name) Zeno is the common anglicised form of the name Zenon (), derived from the theonym Zeus. Other forms of the given name include Zénon ( French) and Zenón ( Spanish). The name is popular as a masculine given name in many Western countries, and it ca ...
, including a list of people and characters with the given name
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Zeno (surname) Zeno is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Ana María Zeno (1922–2011), Argentine professor and gynaecologist
* Antonio Zeno (1326–1402), Venetian navigator
* Antonio Zeno (bishop) (died 1530), Italian Roman Catholic bisho ...
Philosophers
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Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea (; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single en ...
(), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium (; , ; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosophy, Hellenistic philosopher from Kition, Citium (, ), Cyprus.
He was the founder of the Stoicism, Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. B ...
(333 – 264 BCE), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
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Zeno of Tarsus (3rd century BCE), Stoic philosopher
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Zeno of Sidon
Zeno of Sidon (; 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 writings of his pupil Philodemus.
Life
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(1st century BCE), Epicurean philosopher
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Zeno of Rhodes (not later than 220 BCE), historian and politician.
Other persons of antiquity
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Zeno of Caunus
Zenon or Zeno (; 3rd century BC), son of Agreophon, was a public official in Ptolemaic Egypt around the 250s–230s BC. He is known from a cache of his papyrus documents which was discovered by archaeologists in the Nile Valley in 1914.
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(3rd century BCE), 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 BCE), Greek physician
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Zeno of Cyprus
Zeno of Cyprus (), (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 Sophist", i.e. Julian of Caesarea ...
(4th century), Greek physician
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Zeno of Gaza
Saints Eusebius, Nestablus, Zeno, and Nestor (died ) were early Christian martyrs in Gaza.
Life
Saints Eusebius, Nestablus and Zeno were three Christian brothers in Gaza during the reign of Julian (r. 361–363).
They were imprisoned and tortur ...
(died c. 362 CE), early Christian martyr
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Zeno of Verona
Zeno of Verona (; ; about 300 – 371 or 380) was an African emigrants to Italy, Afro-Italian Christian figure believed to have either served as Roman Catholic Diocese of Verona, Bishop of Verona or died as a martyr. He is venerated as a saint i ...
(4th century CE), saint commemorated in the place name Basilica of San Zeno, Verona, Italy
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Zeno the Hermit (4th century?) disciple of St. Basil and saint
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Zeno (consul 448) ''Flavius'' Zeno (Greek: Ζήνων; ''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''.
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(447–451 CE), Roman general and consul
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Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (; ; – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. His reign was plagued by domestic revolts and religious dissension, but was more successful on the foreign front. He is credited with further stabil ...
(c. 425 – 491 CE), Roman Emperor
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Zeno (Bishop of Mérida)
Zeno may refer to:
People
* Zeno (name), including a list of people and characters with the given name
* Zeno (surname)
Philosophers
* Zeno of Elea (), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes
* Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 ...
(5th century CE), Greek Bishop of Mérida, Extremadura
Arts, entertainment, and media
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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 Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German publishing house and sister enterprise of Directmedia Publishing GmbH. ...
, a German digital library
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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
Akköse () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Dernekpazarı, Trabzon Province, Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part call ...
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Zeno, Ohio
Zeno is an extinct town in Meigs Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Meigs Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 228 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the south ...
, a community in the United States
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Zeno (crater)
Zeno is a lunar impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It was named by the IAU
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancin ...
, a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
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Zeno-Watch Basel
Zeno-Watch is a Swiss Made, Swiss watchmaker established in 1868, though the Zeno name has been in use only since 1922. They are an entry-level Swiss brand, using an ETA movement for their mechanical watches. Specializing in aviation watches, t ...
, a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches
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Quantum Zeno effect
In quantum mechanics, frequent measurements cause the quantum Zeno effect, a reduction in transitions away from the systems initial state, slowing a systems time evolution.
Sometimes this effect is interpreted as "a system cannot change while you ...
, an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state
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San Zeno (disambiguation) San Zeno is the Italian name of Zeno of Verona, an Italian Catholic saint.
It may also refer to:
Places
Italy
* San Zeno di Montagna, a municipality in the Province of Verona, Veneto
* San Zeno Naviglio, a municipality in the Province of Bresci ...
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Xeno (disambiguation)
Xeno may refer to:
Prefix
* ''xeno''-, a Greek prefix meaning "foreign"
* ''xeno''-, an affix used in taxonomy
People
* Xeno Müller (born 1972), Swiss athlete
* Randy Hogan (musician), nicknamed Xeno, the original lead singer for the band Che ...
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Xenon (disambiguation)
Xenon is a chemical element with symbol Xe and atomic number 54.
Xenon may also refer to:
Computing
* Xenon (processor), the Xbox 360 CPU
* Xenon (program), a Dutch web spider intended to discover tax evasion
* LG Xenon, a mobile phone manufactu ...
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Zenon (disambiguation) Zenon may refer to
Industry
* ZENON Environmental, a Canadian water treatment company based in Oakville, Ontario
* Zenon Petroleum and Gas, importer of fuel products
Fiction
* '' Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (film) ''
* '' Zenon: The Z ...
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Zenone (disambiguation) Zenone may refer to:
* Zenone, an Italian Catholic saint
* Zenone Benini (1902–1976), Italian industrialist and Fascist politician
* Zenone Veronese, an Italian painter of the Renaissance period
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* Zenon (dis ...
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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 co ...
, a hypothetical computational model
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Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through the works of Plato, Aristotle, and later commentators like Simplicius of Cilicia. Zeno de ...
, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
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Zenonia zeno
''Zenonia zeno'', the orange-spotted skipper, orange-spotted bellboy or common bellboy, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to eastern Africa and to Nigeria. The habitat con ...
'', 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 Nep ...
, a book of Mormon scripture
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