 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
zed
noun: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it
zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: {Z}, {zee}, {ezed},
{izzard}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Zed \Zed\, noun [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See
{Zeta}.]
The letter {Z}; -- called also {zee}, and formerly {izzard}.
''Zed, thou unnecessary letter!'' --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Zed
1978. Software Portability Group, U Waterloo. {Eh}, with
types added. Similar to {C}. Implementation language for the
{Thoth} realtime operating system. Added a few simple types
for greater efficiency on byte-addressed machines. String
constants in case statements. Enforces the naming convention:
MANIFESTS, Externals and locals. "Porting the Zed Compiler",
G.B. Bonkowski et al, SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):92-97 (Aug 1979).
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