 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Zen
noun
1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can
come through meditation and intuition rather than faith;
China and Japan [syn: {Zen Buddhism}]
2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained
through direct intuitive insight [syn: {Zen Buddhism}]
3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: {acid}, {back
breaker}, {battery-acid}, {dose}, {dot}, {Elvis}, {loony
toons}, {Lucy in the sky with diamonds}, {pane}, {superman},
{window pane}]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Zen
[Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.]
[{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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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