Zig zag

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Zig zag, Zig Zag, Zigzag, or Zig-zag often refers to:

• Zigzag, a jagged, regular pattern

Other uses

Companies

• Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company

Computer science

• Zig-zag product, a method for constructing graphs in computational complexity
• ZigZag (software), a data model designed and patented by Ted Nelson
• Zig-Zag, a tree-rotation variant used to balance splay trees
• JPEG Zig-Zag Entropy Coding, a method used in JPEG images to compress data

Electrical engineering

• Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems

Entertainment

• Zig Zag Girl, a magic trick invented by Robert Harbin in the mid-1960s
• Zig and Zag (Australian performers), Jack Perry and Doug McKenzie, a clown duo who appeared on Australian television from 1957-1969.
• ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
• Zig Zag (manga), a manga series by Yuki Nakaji
• Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
• Zig Zag, a 1989 release from the band The Hooters
• Zig Zag, a 1984 video game
• Zig Zag (hip hop album), by Tha Mexakinz
• ZigZag, the main villain from The Thief and the Cobbler
• Zig Zag, a furry character in the webcomic Sabrina Online
• Zig and Zag (puppets), puppets that made their television début on Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)'s The Den
• Zig-Zag, a character in the novel Holes, by Louis Sachar

Geography

• One of several places in the Mount Hood Corridor in Oregon:
  • Zigzag, Oregon
  • Zigzag River and Little Zigzag River
  • Zigzag Glacier on Mount Hood
  • Zigzag Ranger Station

People

• Zig and Zag (Australian performers), Jack Perry and Doug McKenzie, a clown duo who appeared on Australian television from 1957-1969.
• ZigZag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent
• Gerrit Rietveld, designer of the zig-zag chair.

Railroads

• Zig Zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
• One of several railway-related places in New South Wales:
  • Zig Zag railway station, New South Wales, a railway station on the CityRail network near Lithgow
  • Zig Zag Railway, a heritage railway located near Lithgow
  • Lapstone Zig Zag, a walking track on the line of an abandoned railway
• Zig Zag Bridge, an alternate name of Perry Bridge, a 1711 bridge over River Tame in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England

Ships

• USS Zigzag (SP-106), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

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