Zeno
Zeno is a Greek name derived from the more ancient variant Zenon. The word may refer to any of the following:
People
Philosophers
Zeno of Elea (c.490–c.430 BC), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, famed for his paradoxes.
Zeno of Citium (333 BC - 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
Zeno of Tarsus (200s BC), Stoic philosopher
Zeno of Sidon (1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher
Other people
Zeno (physician) (3rd and 2nd centuries BC), Greek physician
Zeno of Cyprus (4th century), Greek physician
Zeno of Verona (4th century AD), saint
Zeno (emperor) (c. 425–491 AD), Byzantine ruler
The Zeno brothers (14th century AD), Nicolo and Antonio, Venetian navigators
Apostolo Zeno (18th century), poet and librettist for opera
Zeno of Canton (21st century AD), co-founder of Boost, Incorporated.
Zeno LeHericy (21st Century AD), Founder of ZInventions Technologies.
Other uses
Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse
Zeno, an acne treatment device
Zeno's paradoxes, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
Zeno machine, a hypothetical computational model
Zeno (crater), a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
Zeno Cosini, the protagonist of Italo Svevo's novel La Coscienza di Zeno
Zeno (programming language), an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
Zeno-Watch Basel, a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches
Quantum Zeno effect, 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
also the title of their first album
Zeno (dubstep producer), an American dubstep artist
Zeno, a typeface designed by Giovanni Mardersteig for use at the Officina Bodoni
In Modern Fiction Zeno and Dufort, a demon that uses spells in the anime Zatch Bell
Translation
The word "Zeno" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Welsh, German, Latin, Dutch, Simple English, Swedish.
Translation(s) in other languages: Belarusian (Taraškievica): Зянон, Bosnian: Zenon (čvor), Bulgarian: Зенон, Catalan: Zenó (desambiguació), Czech: Zénón, Danish: Zenon, Estonian: Zenon, Greek: Ζήνων, Spanish: Zenón, French: Zénon, Korean: 제논, Croatian: Zenon, Icelandic: Zenon, Italian: Zenone, Hebrew: זנון, Japanese: ゼノン, Polish: Zenon, Portuguese: Zenão, Russian: Зенон, Serbian: Зенон, Serbo-Croatian: Zenon, Finnish: Zenon, Chinese: 芝诺.
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