BZ

BZ may refer to:

In arts and media

Publications

• Several German-language newspapers:
  • Badische Zeitung, Freiburg
  • Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig
  • B.Z. (newspaper), Berlin
  • Berliner Zeitung, also Berlin
  • Berner Zeitung, Bern
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift, a German academic journal

Other media

• B'z, a Japanese musical group
• B.Z. featuring Joanne, an early stage name for pop singer Joanne Accom
• Battlezone (disambiguation)
• Beyond Zork, a computer game released by Infocom in 1987

Businesses

• Blue Dart Aviation (IATA airline code)
• Keystone Air Service (IATA airline code)

Places

• Bautzen, Germany (vehicle registration code BZ)
• Belize (ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code)
  • .bz, the country code top-level domain for Belize
• Province of Bolzano or South Tyrol, Italy (vehicle registration code BZ)
• Brazil (World Meteorological Organization country code)
• Buitenzorg or Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia
• Buzău, Romania (vehicle registration code BZ)

In science and technology

Chemistry

• Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, a classic example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, an odourless military incapacitating agent with NATO code BZ
• Benzimidazole, an aromatic compound and parasiticide
• Benzodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs
• Benzoyl group (Bz), C₆H₅-CO-, a functional group: acyl derived from benzoic acid

Other uses in science and technology

• bzip2, an algorithm for data compression
• Brillouin zone, in mathematics and solid-state physics, a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space
• Bugzilla, a web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool

Other uses

• Battle zone, the location of a battle
• Bobby Zamora, English footballer nicknamed 'BZ'
• Border Zone, area near a border that has special restrictions on movement
• Bravo Zulu, a naval signal meaning 'well done'
• Brent Crude, a trading classification of crude oil (futures trading symbol BZ on the NYMEX exchange)
• Busy, in Internet slang (from the pronunciation "bee-zee")
• Squatting movement, in Danish slang, from the word "besæt" ("occupiers")

See also

• Bzzz (disambiguation)