| zero-sum game |
Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participant's gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). It is so named because when you add up the total gains of the participants and subtract the total losses then they will sum to zero. Cutting a cake is zero- or constant-sum because taking a larger piece for yourself reduces the amount of cake available for others. ...
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| zoonoses |
Diseases which can be transfered from animals to people.
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| zeitgeist |
[n. TSYTE-gaist or ZYTE-gaist] The meaning of this word never changes, but what it describes is subject to society's whims. Zeitgeist is the popular outlook -intellectually, morally, and culturally - in a particular period or generation. Scholars maintain that each era has a unique spirit distinguishing it from other periods. The pervasive cultural climate is described as the Zeitgeist. It is most often reflected in the music, movies, literature, and philosophy of the time. ...
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| zero |
In Chaldee "the Seed". A circle in Chaldee was zero, or zer.
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| zonal |
In meteorology, latitudinal, that is, easterly or westerly; opposed to meridional.
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