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• Zeno of Elea
  Zeno of Elea
  
  Zeno of Velia was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic....
   (c.490–c.430 BC), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, famed for his paradoxes.
• Zeno of Citium
  Zeno of Citium
  
  Zeno of Citium was a Greeks philosopher from Citium , Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens, from about 300 BC....
   (333 BC - 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
• Zeno of Tarsus
  Zeno of Tarsus
  
  Zeno , , of Tarsus , was a Stoicism philosopher, flourished c. 200 BC.He was a pupil of Chrysippus, and when Chrysippus died c. 207 BC, he succeeded him to become the fourth head of the Stoic school in Athens....
   (200s BC), Stoic philosopher
• Zeno of Sidon
  Zeno of Sidon
  
  Zeno of Sidon was an Epicureanism wiktionary:philosophy of the 1st century BC, who was born in the city of Sidon in Phoenicia. He was a contemporary of Cicero, who heard him when at Athens....
   (1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher

Other people

• Zeno (physician)
  Zeno (physician)
  
  Zeno, , , was a Greek physician.He was one of the most eminent of the followers of Herophilus, whom Galen calls "no ordinary man", and who is said by Diogenes La?rtius to have been better able to think than to write....
   (3rd and 2nd centuries BC), Greek physician
• Zeno of Cyprus
  Zeno of Cyprus
  
  Zeno of Cyprus, , was a Greek physician, a native of Cyprus, and the tutor of Ionicus, Magnus, and Oribasius. He taught and practised his profession at Alexandria, but was expelled by the Bishop George of Cappadocia, who persecuted both pagans and orthodox Christians with equal bitterness....
   (4th century), Greek physician
• Zeno of Verona
  Zeno of Verona
  
  Zeno of Verona, was either an early Christian Bishop of Verona or martyr. He is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church....
   (4th century AD), saint
• Zeno (emperor)
  Zeno (emperor)
  
  Flavius Zeno Perpetuus, original name Tarasicodissa or Trascalissaeus, Eastern Roman Empire was one of the more prominent of the early Byzantine Emperors....
   (c. 425–491 AD), Byzantine ruler
• The Zeno brothers
  Zeno brothers
  
  The Zeno brothers, Nicol? and Antonio, were noted Italy navigators from Venice, living in the second half of the fourteenth century....
   (14th century AD), Nicolo and Antonio, Venetian navigators
• Apostolo Zeno
  Apostolo Zeno
  
  Apostolo Zeno was an Italian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.A venetian nobleman, he was in 1691 among the founders of the Accademia degli Animosi....
   (18th century), poet and librettist for opera

Other uses

• Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse?
• Zeno's paradoxes
  Zeno's paradoxes
  
  Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought to have been devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides's doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion....
  , paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
• Zeno machine
  Zeno machine
  
  In mathematics and computer science, Zeno machines are a hypothetical computational model related to Turing machines that allows a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps to be performed in finite time....
  , a hypothetical computational model
• Zeno (crater)
  Zeno (crater)
  
  Zeno is a moon impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It lies to the east-southeast of the crater Mercurius . Farther to the east of Zeno, along the limb, is the well-formed crater Boss ....
  , a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
• Zeno Cosini, the protagonist of Italo Svevo's novel La Coscienza di Zeno
  La Coscienza di Zeno
  
  Zeno's Conscience is a novel by Italian language businessman and author Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatry....
  
• Zeno (programming language), an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
• Zeno-Watch Basel
  Zeno-Watch Basel
  
  Zeno-Watch is a Swiss watchmaker in business since 1868, but only using the Zeno name since 1922. Specializing in aviation watches, they exist today as one of the few independent Swiss watch manufacturers still in operation, and make watches in their factory in Basel, Switzerland....
  , a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches
• Quantum Zeno effect
  Quantum Zeno effect
  
  The quantum Zeno effect is a name coined by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas at Austin in 1977 in their analysis of the situation in which an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay....
  , an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state
• Zeno (band), a German hard rock band formed by Zeno Roth
  Zeno Roth
  
  Zeno Roth is a Germany guitarist and songwriter, playing in a fluent neoclassical/blues style. He is the younger brother of acclaimed guitarist Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions and Sky Guitar fame....
  
• also the title of their first album

• Zeno and Dufort
  Zeno and Dufort
  
  Zatch Bell!, known in Japan as Konjiki no Gash Bell!! is a manga and anime series by Makoto Raiku. Zeno and Dufort are two characters in this series, and two of the main villains of the story, although they do not come to prominence until the Zatch Bell! characters#Faudo arc....
  , a demon that uses spells in the anime Zatch Bell

See also

• Xeno
  Xeno
  
  Xeno- is a prefix based on the Greek word "Xenos ", meaning stranger. In biology, it is often used to designate species-difference, such as xenotransplantation ....
  
• Xenon
  Xenon (disambiguation)
  
  Xenon is a chemical element.Xenon may also refer to:* Xenon , a Seleucid general* Xenon * Xenon * Xenon , the Xbox 360 CPU* Xenon , an alien race in the X Computer Game Series...
  
• Zenon
  Zenon (disambiguation)
  
  Zenon is an ancient Greek language name derived from the name Zeus. A more modern spelling is Zeno. The word may refer to any of the following:...