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Z

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Noun

1. omega, z

the ending of a series or sequence

Example Sentences:
'the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end'

2. ezed, izzard, z, zed, zee

the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

Example Sentences:
'the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee'
'he doesn't know A from izzard'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Z

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nounWord forms: plural z's, Z's or Zs
1. 
the 26th and last letter and the 20th consonant of the modern English alphabet
2. 
a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually a voiced alveolar fricative, as in zip
3. 
a. 
something shaped like a Z
b. 
(in combination)
a Z-bend in a road
symbol for
1. 
the z-axis or a coordinate measured along the z-axis in a Cartesian or cylindrical coordinate system
2. 
an algebraic variable
symbol for
1. 
any unknown, variable, or unspecified factor, number, person, or thing
2. chemistry
atomic number
3. physics
impedance
4. 
zone
5. currency
zaïre
abbreviation for
6. 
Zambia (international car registration)

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Z

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Astronomy
zenith distance
1.  Chemistry and Physics
atomic number
2.  Electricity
impedance
zetta-
nounWord forms: plural Z's or z's
1. 
the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet: via Latin from the Greek zeta
2. 
any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (z) of zone
3. 
a type or impression for z or Z
4. 
the twenty-sixth in a sequence or group
5. 
an object shaped like Z
6.  US; [pl.]; Slang
sleep
, often in the phrase get (or catch, etc.) some (or a few, etc.) z's to sleep for a while
adjective
7. 
of z or Z
8. 
twenty-sixth in a sequence or group
9. 
shaped like Z
noun Ancient Mathematics
1. 
the third of a set of unknown quantities, x and y usually being the first two
2. 
a variable
1.  Astronomy
zenith distance
2. 
zepto-
3. 
zero
4. 
zone

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Z

see synonyms of z
1. The symbol for atomic number.
2. The symbol for impedance.
n. pl. z's or Z's also zs or Zs
1. The 26th letter of the modern English alphabet.
2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter z.
3. The 26th in a series.
4. Something shaped like the letter Z.
5. z's Slang Sleep.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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