Sz

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SZ may refer to

• the Alfa Romeo SZ
• the Canton of Schwyz
• the NATO country code for Switzerland
• the Slovenian railway company, Slovenske železnice (SŽ)
• Szöllösy, the catalogue of all the compositions of Béla Bartók
• SZ cycle-car, a Soviet/Russian microcar series including SZA and SZD
• the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in Astrophysics
• Green Party (Czech Republic) (Strana zelených)
• the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China
• the SZ, a model of VAIO from Sony

The grapheme sz which

• In Polish represents the sound [ʂ], see Sz (digraph).
• In Hungarian, representing the sound [s] (while 's' is pronounced as [ʃ]), see Sz (digraph).
• In German, the historical origin of the ligature ß.

the acronym sz is

• In Hungarian notation, sometimes used when programming in C, an acronym representing 'string terminated by zero' (aka C string).
• In programming, often used as a suffix to an identifier describing any kind of size. For example, "bufsz" for "buffer size".