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Zeno may mean:

People:

  • Zeno (emperor) (c.425–491), Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 474–491
  • Zeno of Citium (333–264 BC), Hellenistic philosopher of the Painted Porch, founder of Stoicism
  • Zeno of Elea (c.490–c.430 BC), Hellenic Eleatic philosopher, follower of Parmenides and famous for his paradoxes
  • Zeno of Sidon (first century BC), Epicurean philosopher
  • Zeno of Tarsus (third century BC), Middle Stoa philosopher
  • St. Zeno of Verona (c.300–c.380), Roman Catholic Saint and an early Christian Bishop or martyr
  • The Zeno brothers (fourteenth century), Antonio, Carlo, and Nicolò Zeno, Venetian navigators
  • Nicolò Zeno (younger), publisher of the Zeno map

Other uses:

  • Zeno's paradoxes, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
  • Zeno (crater), a lunar impact crater
  • Zeno programming language, an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
  • Quantum Zeno effect, an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state

Related pages

  • Xeno

See also

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