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  • Delftsche Zwervers
    Delftsche Zwervers
    The Studentenstam De Delftsche Zwervers is a student society in Delft, the Netherlands. Dating from 1915, it is world's oldest student scouting group, first as a club for former Scouts, from 1920 as a Rover crew. They are housed in the Scout Centre "Kruithuis", the monumental gunpowder ammunition...

    , a Dutch student society and rover crew.
  • Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta is a college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...

    , a college sorority in the USA
  • Dimension Zero, a melodic death metal
    Melodic death metal
    Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal which combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with the intensity of death metal. The genre is also known as Gothenburg metal, a reference to the city in Sweden where it originated...

     band.
  • Discovery Zone
    Discovery Zone
    Discovery Zone was a chain of entertainment facilities featuring games and elaborate indoor mazes designed for young children, including slides, climbing play structures and ball pits. The chain was founded by Ronald Matsch, Jim Jorgensen and Dr. David Schoenstadt in 1989. The first store was...

    , a playland and birthday party place for kids similar to Chuck E. Cheese's that went out of business in the late-1990s.
  • Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a 300 pound Vegas Elvis impersonator. Over the years they would also perform songs originally by Elvis Presley, Queen, Bob Marley and The Yardbirds. The group toured extensively...

    , a reggae influenced Led Zeppelin cover band fronted by an Elvis impersonator
    Elvis impersonator
    An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies famed American musician Elvis Presley, either as a hobby, a career in entertainment or occasionally for fun...

    .
  • Drop Zone
    Drop zone
    In parachuting, a drop zone or DZ is the area above and around a location where a parachutist jumps and expects to land. It is usually situated beside a small airport, often sharing the facility with other general aviation activities....

    , as in a parachuting drop zone.
  • Dragonball Z, a TV series
  • The differential
    Differential (calculus)
    In calculus, a differential is traditionally an infinitesimally small change in a variable. For example, if x is a variable, then a change in the value of x is often denoted Δx . The differential dx represents such a change, but is infinitely small...

     of z


In languages dz may represent:
  • Dzongkha language
    Dzongkha language
    Dzongkha , occasionally Ngalopkha, is the national language of Bhutan...

     (ISO 639
    ISO 639
    ISO 639 is the set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. It was also the name of the original standard, approved in 1967 and withdrawn in 2002....

     alpha-2, dz).
  • a digraph in the Polish, Macedonian, Slovak and Hungarian alphabets
    Dz (digraph)
    Dz is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Polish, Kashubian, Macedonian, Slovak, and Hungarian to represent . In Dene Suline and Standard Cantonese Pinyin it represents .-In Polish:...

    .
  • the voiced alveolar affricate
    Voiced alveolar affricate
    The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.-Features:...

    .


As a code DZ or dz may represent:
  • Algeria
    Algeria
    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.It is bordered by Tunisia in...

     (2-letter ISO
    ISO 3166-1
    ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the...

     country code
    Country code
    Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...

    )
  • the METAR
    METAR
    METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting....

     code for Drizzle
    Drizzle
    Drizzle is a light rain precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain, and generally smaller than 0.5 mm in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation rates due to drizzle are on the order of a millimeter per...

    .