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From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Zen
n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can
come through meditation and intuition rather than faith;
China and Japan [syn: {Zen}, {Zen Buddhism}]
2: doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct
intuitive insight [syn: {Zen}, {Zen Buddhism}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
zen vt To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden
flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally
applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer
allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned it." Contrast {grok}, which connotes
a time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare {hack mode}.
See also {guru}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Zen
[Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.]
[{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
zen
To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden
flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to {bugs}, but
occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd
you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned
it."
Contrast {grok}, which connotes a time-extended version of
zenning a system. Compare {hack mode}. See also {guru}.
(1996-09-17)
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