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ziatype n. Kersey uses several processes for printing his pictures, from traditional silver gelatin prints to a mysterious, little-known technique called a ziatype. Named after the Native American word zia, meaning “sun,” these exquisite, hand-coated art paper prints are created by exposure to sunlight and made visible by little more than immersion in water, followed by a brief chemical bath. [English] [full cite] (May. 16, 2005)

ziatype n. Continuing with “alternative” photography, Richard Sullivan and Carl Weese are the authors of a new definitive work, The New Platinum Print.…This covers the complete field of chemical and procedural controls of color and contrast for expressive photographic printing in platinum, palladium, and gold, introducing the new Ziatype process, while explaining in detail the traditional methods. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

ziatype n. I’m getting interested in trying some alternative processes like kallitype and ziatype. For this, I’ll need to convert 35 mm negs and positives to 8X10, 11X14 etc. paper negatives for the contact printing. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

ziatype n. Richard Sullivan announced a palladium and gold POP (and developing-out) process in 1996 called the Ziatype. Lithium chloropalladite is used for cool tones and the addition of sodium tungstate to give warm brown to sepia tones. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

ziggy n. Simply translated, the ziggy means: the guillotine, an execution, a firing, being forced out, a resignation under duress—simply, canning a coach. Usually, the victim is an unfortunate soul who has twisted in jeopardy for several weeks as critics, fans and media marvels jabbed harpoons at him. [English Employment] [full cite] (Jul. 23, 2005)

zillionics n. The data volume is growing to such levels of “zillionics” that we can expect science to compile vast combinatorial libraries, to run combinatorial sweeps through possibility space (as Stephen Wolfram has done with cellular automata), and to run multiple competing hypotheses in a matrix. [English Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 29, 2006)

Zim n. (title) [English Zimbabwe Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 25, 2006)

zimbo n. [Daniel Dennett] goes on, however, to propose a super-zombie or “zimbo,” which besides its routine processing of inputs and outputs, is capable of addressing and “considering” its own internal states. [English] [full cite] (Feb. 21, 2005)

zinger n. I’ve experienced what is known as ‘zingers’ which is the nerves reconnecting which have often been quite painful but i’ve always remembered these are signs that everything is healing. [English Body Health Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 11, 2008)

zinging n. Zinging is a Korean phenomenon. It involves miming in public to popular songs: a pop version of the narcissistic art of air guitar or the group practice of public humiliation that is karaoke without the bum notes depending how you look at it. [English-derived South Korea Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Dec. 5, 2008)

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