Zig zag

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Contents 1 Other uses 1.1 Computer science 1.2 Geography 1.3 Media 1.4 People 1.5 Miscellaneous

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

• Zigzag, a jagged, regular pattern

[edit] Other uses

[edit] Computer science

• 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

[edit] 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

• 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
• Kalamunda Zig Zag, a railway line into the Darling Ranges in Western Australia

[edit] Media

• ZigZag (2002), a film by David S. Goyer
• ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
• Zig Zag (manga), a manga series by Yuki Nakaji
• Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
• Zig Zag (The Hooters album), a 1989 release from The Hooters
• Zig Zag (video game), a 1984 video game

[edit] People

• Zig and Zag (Australian performers), Jack Perry and Doug McKenzie, a clown duo who appeared on Australian television from 1957-1969.
• Zig and Zag (puppets), puppets that made their television début on Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)'s The Den
• ZigZag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company
• Zig Zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
• Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems
• Zig Zag Girl, a magic trick invented by Robert Harbin in the mid-1960s
• Zig Zag, a furry character invented by Max Black Rabbit and made famous by Eric Schwartz' Sabrina Online.