LZ
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LZ can stand for:
- the IATA code for Balkan Bulgarian AirlinesBalkan Bulgarian AirlinesBalkan Airlines was Bulgaria's government-owned flag carrier between 1947 and 2002. During the 1970s the airliner became a significant European carrier. The company encountered financial instability following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe...
- the Ham Prefix for Bulgaria
- Landing zoneLanding ZoneA Landing Zone or "LZ" is a military term for any area where an aircraft can land.In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where aircraft land...
, an avionic or military term - Landing Zone (computing), the area on a disc platter, usually on the inner circumference, where the heads rest when the spindle motor is not turning. This is a dedicated area with special texturing where no user data is written.http://support.seagate.com/support/glossary/terms/landing_zone.html
- Led ZeppelinLed ZeppelinLed Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
, a rock music group - LempelAbraham LempelAbraham Lempel is an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland . He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received a B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc. in...
-ZivJacob ZivJacob Ziv is an Israeli computer scientist who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.-Biography:...
, prefix for family of data compression algorithms (LZ77, LZ78, LZWLZWLempel–Ziv–Welch is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978...
), sometimes used as beginning for file name extensions (LZHLHA (file format)LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named LHx, was eventually released as LH. It was then renamed to LHA to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 LH command...
) - Luftschiff ("Airship") ZeppelinZeppelinA Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...
(German), prefix of the serial numbers of the historic airships built by Ferdinand Graf ZeppelinFerdinand von ZeppelinFerdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company...
in FriedrichshafenFriedrichshafenThis article is about a German town. For the Danish town, see Frederikshavn, and for the Finnish town, see Fredrikshamn .Friedrichshafen is a university city on the northern side of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria.It is the district capital of the...
and elsewhere - LubrizolLubrizolThe Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company that produces and supplies technologies, which are designed to improve the quality and performance of products in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets...
, NYSE symbol of The Lubrizol Corporation - Lutz jumpLutz jumpThe Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.- Lutz technique:...
, a figure skating jump - a Bulgarian pop band with the participation of Bulgarian female singer Silvia Katsarova.
- a Bulgarian brand of aerated chocolate bars produced by Kraft-Jakobs-Suchard in the town of SvogeSvogeSvogue is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province. It is located in the gorge of the Iskar River, at the place where the mountains Mala planina, Golema planina and Ponor meet, 40 km north of the capital Sofia....
. - a LzipLziplzip is a free, command-line tool for the compression of data; it employs the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm with a user interface that is familiar to users of usual Unix compression tools, such as gzip and bzip2....
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