Audio Help [zee or, especially Brit., zed; Archaic iz-erd] Pronunciation Key | 1. | the 26th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. |
| 2. | any spoken sound represented by the letter Z or z, as in zero, zigzag, or buzzer. |
| 3. | something having the shape of a Z. |
| 4. | a written or printed representation of the letter Z or z. |
| 5. | a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter Z or z. |
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| 1. | Astronomy. zenith distance. |
| 2. | zone. |
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| 1. | the 26th in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the 25th. |
| 2. | (sometimes lowercase ) the medieval Roman numeral for 2000. Compare Roman numerals. |
| 3. | Chemistry, Physics. atomic number. |
| 4. | Electricity. impedance. |
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| 1. | an unknown quantity or variable. |
| 2. | (in Cartesian coordinates) the z-axis. |
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| atomic number
n. Symbol Z Abbr. at. no. The number of protons in an atomic nucleus. |
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| im·ped·ance
Audio Help (ĭm-pēd'ns) Pronunciation Key
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| z or Z
Audio Help (zē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. z's or Z's also zs or Zs
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| Z 2
abbr. Zulu time |
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| Zulu time
n. Abbr. Z See universal time. |
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"Thou whoreson Zed, thou vnnecessary Letter." ["King Lear," II.ii.69]Series of zs to represent a buzzing sound first attested 1852; zees "spell of sleep, a nap" is slang first recorded 1963, Amer.Eng. student slang.
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| 1. | the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation [syn: omega] |
| 2. | the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" |
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see from soup to nuts (a to z).
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/zed/
See also Z++.
["Understanding Z", J.M. Spivey, Cambridge U Press 1988].
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Z\ (z[=e]; in England commonly, and in America sometimes, z[e^]d; formerly, also, [i^]z"z[e^]rd) Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. ?, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 273, 274.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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