Oz
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Oz has several meanings:
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's story written by L. Frank Baum, and The Wizard of Oz is the title of various works derived from it.
- The Land of Oz is the fictional empire in the Oz books.
- "Oz" (from "Oz-tralia") is also a colloquial term for Australia.
- Oz (from "Oz-wald") is also the title of a TV show on HBO set in the fictional American Oswald prison.
- Oz is the name of a multi-paradigm computer programming language.
- OZ is an abbreviation often used for the OpenZaurus Linux distribution
- Oz is the name of a satirical and irreverent magazine publishing in Britain in the late 1960s.
- oz. is an abbreviation for 'ounce' (from Italian 'onza') unit of measure.
- Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz) is a film director, actor and puppeteer noted for his work on the Muppets and Yoda.
- Amos Oz is an Israeli author.
- Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- the IATA code for Asiana
- Oz is a commune in the Isère département in France.
- Oz is the title of a major 1987 Judge Dredd storyline in the UK comic 2000 AD
- OZ (acronym for Organization of Zodiac) is a fictional organization in the 1995 anime Gundam Wing.