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PTZ

PTZ is the initialism of pan.

Meaning of pan

Noun

pan (plural pans or (humorous) pen)

  1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
    Synonyms:
    saucepan
  4. (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
  5. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
  6. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

See all 40 meanings of pan

Noun

PTZ (plural PTZs)

  1. A camera that can pan, tilt and zoom.
    • Flock says it has 120,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) and pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) cameras deployed throughout the US, capturing tens of billions of data points a month. Flock’s ALPRs automatically scan every license plate that passes them, while the PTZs record live footage that can be...2026 July 30, T.M. Brown, “Flock cameras are getting mobbed”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026

Forms of PTZ

pluralPTZs

Questions about PTZ

What does PTZ mean?
PTZ means a camera that can pan, tilt and zoom.
What is PTZ the initialism of?
PTZ is the initialism of pan.
What part of speech is PTZ?
PTZ is a noun.
What is the plural of PTZ?
The plural of PTZ is PTZs.

Words near PTZ in the dictionary

  1. ptyctodontids
  2. ptyctodonts
  3. ptygmatic
  4. ptyxes
  5. ptyxis
  6. PTZ
  7. PTZs
  8. PU
  9. pu pu
  10. Pu'an
  11. pu'er

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PTZ (page history and authors); pan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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