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A Zigzag is a jagged, regular pattern.

Zigzag, ZigZag, zig zag or zig-zag may also refer to:

Contents

• Film and television
• Music and theatre
• Culture
• Computer science
• Geography
• Mathematics and cryptography
• Railroads
• Revolvers
• Architecture
• Animals
• Other uses
• See also

Film and television

• Zigzag (1963 film)
• Zig Zag (1970 film), a film by Richard A. Colla
• Zig Zag (2002 film), a film by David S. Goyer
• Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
• Zig Zag, an educational TV series on BBC Schools
• Zigzag, a character in The Thief and the Cobbler
• "Zig Zag", an episode of The Outer Limits, season 6

Music and theatre

• Zig-Zag! , a 1917 musical revue
• Zig Zag (The Hooters album) (1989)
• Zig Zag (Tha Mexakinz album) (1994)
• Zig Zag, a 2003 album by Earl Slick
• Zig Zags, a heavy metal/punk rock band
• Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag, a japanese visual-kei band

Culture

• ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
• Zig Zag (manga), a cartoon series by Yuki Nakaji
• Zigzag (surfing magazine)

Computer science

• ZigZag (software), a data model designed and patented by Ted Nelson
• Zig-zag product, a method for constructing graphs in computational complexity
• Zig-Zag, a tree-rotation variant used to balance splay trees
• Zig-zag entropy coding, a method used in JPEG images to compress data
• ZigZag encoding, a mapping of the signed integers to unsigned integers that shortens variable-length quantity representations of negative integers

Geography

• Zig Zag Pass, site of the Struggle on Zig Zag Pass in the Philippines during World War II
• Zigzag, Oregon
  • Zigzag Glacier
  • Zigzag Ranger Station
  • Zigzag River and Little Zigzag River
• Zigzag Bluff in Antarctica
• Zigzag Island off the coast of Antarctica
• Zigzag Pass on the island of South Georgia

Mathematics and cryptography

• Boustrophedon transform, a zigzag reordering
• Fence (mathematics) or zigzag poset, a partially ordered set
• Isbell's zigzag theorem
• Zig-zag lemma, a mathematical lemma in homological algebra
• Zigzag cipher, a type of cipher, or code

Railroads

• Zig zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
• Lapstone Zig Zag, a walking track on the line of an abandoned railway
• Zig Zag Railway, a heritage railway near Lithgow
• Zig Zag railway station, a railway station on the CityRail network near Lithgow, New South Wales
• Kalamunda Zig Zag in Western Australia
• Perry Bridge or Zig Zag Bridge, a 1711 bridge over River Tame in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England

Revolvers

• Mauser Zig-Zag, a 19th-century revolver
• Zig zag revolver, a 3D-printed revolver developed in Japan

Architecture

• Zig-Zag Chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld
• Zig-zag moulding on Norman arches
• Zigzag Moderne, a style and feature of Art Deco architecture

Animals

• Phasianella zigzag , a species of sea snail
• Northern zigzag salamander
• Ozark zigzag salamander
• Southern zigzag salamander
• Zigzag barb, a ray-finned fish
• Zigzag heron, a bird
• Zigzagiceras , an extinct cephalopod genus

Other uses

• Boustrophedon, writing in alternating directions
• Zig Zag (1984 video game), a video game by DK'Tronics
• Zig Zag (1987 video game), a video game by Mirrorsoft
• Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company
• Zig-zag bridge, a type of pedestrian walkway
• USS Zigzag (SP-106), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919
• Agent Zigzag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent
• Zig-zag in-line package, a short-lived packaging technology for integrated circuits
• Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems
• ZigZag, a ticketing scheme in Derbyshire, UK, by bus operator Trent Barton
• Zig Zag Girl, a stage magic illusion
• The zigzag model of plant-pathogen co-evolution by Jonathan D. G. Jones and Jeffery Dangl
• Isbell's zigzag theorem

See also

• Zag (disambiguation)
• Zig (disambiguation)
• Zig and Zag (disambiguation)
• Zik Zak Filmworks

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