Dictionary Definition

1 the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian [syn: azimuth]

2 a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon [syn: Arizona, Grand Canyon State]

User Contributed Dictionary

AZ, Az or az can mean:

AZ (football club), a Dutch football (soccer) club
AZ (rapper), a rapper from Brooklyn, New York
Alitalia, IATA airline designator for the national airline of Italy
Arizona (United States postal abbreviations)
AstraZeneca, common abbreviation for the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company
Azerbaijan, a European country, designated by the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code
Azimuth (as in "el-az", short for "elevation and azimuth"), the horizontal component of a compass direction
Authority Zero, an Arizona punk rock band.

Az (Persian mythology), a demonic principle in Persian mythology, thought of as feminine and associated with lust
Az (Manichaeism), a Zoroastrian deity, the mother of evil spirits
A (Cyrillic), the first letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet

Azerbaijani language, designated by the ISO 639-1 international-standard language-code "az"
that or the (definite article, pair of the indefinite an in English) in Hungarian language