BZ
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BZ may refer to:
In arts and media
Publications
- Several German-language newspapers:
- Badische Zeitung, Freiburg
- Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig
- B.Z. (newspaper), Berlin
- Berliner Zeitung, also Berlin
- Berner Zeitung, Bern
- Byzantinische Zeitschrift, a German academic journal
Other media
- B'z, a Japanese musical group
- B.Z. featuring Joanne, an early stage name for pop singer Joanne Accom
- Battlezone (disambiguation)
- Beyond Zork, a computer game released by Infocom in 1987
Businesses
- Blue Dart Aviation (IATA airline code)
- Keystone Air Service (IATA airline code)
Places
- Bautzen, Germany (vehicle registration code BZ)
- Belize (ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code)
- .bz, the country code top-level domain for Belize
- Province of Bolzano or South Tyrol, Italy (vehicle registration code BZ)
- Brazil (World Meteorological Organization country code)
- Buitenzorg or Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia
- Buzău, Romania (vehicle registration code BZ)
In science and technology
Chemistry
- Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, a classic example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, an odourless military incapacitating agent with NATO code BZ
- Benzimidazole, an aromatic compound and parasiticide
- Benzodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs
- Benzoyl group (Bz), C6H5-CO-, a functional group: acyl derived from benzoic acid
Other uses in science and technology
- bzip2, an algorithm for data compression
- Brillouin zone, in mathematics and solid-state physics, a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space
- Bugzilla, a web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool
Other uses
- Battle zone, the location of a battle
- Bobby Zamora, English footballer nicknamed 'BZ'
- Border Zone, area near a border that has special restrictions on movement
- Bravo Zulu, a naval signal meaning 'well done'
- Brent Crude, a trading classification of crude oil (futures trading symbol BZ on the NYMEX exchange)
- Busy, in Internet slang (from the pronunciation "bee-zee")
- Squatting movement, in Danish slang, from the word "besæt" ("occupiers")
See also
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