From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Z \Z\ (z[=e]; in England commonly, and in America sometimes, z[e^]d; formerly, also, [i^]z"z[e^]rd) Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. ?, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 273, 274.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Z
noun
1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation [syn: {omega}]
2: 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: {zee}, {zed}, {ezed}, {izzard}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Z++ An {object-oriented} extension of {Z}. ["Z++, an Object-Oriented Extension to Z", Lano, Z User Workshop, Oxford 1990, Springer Workshops in Computing, 1991, pp.151-172]. (1995-04-22)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Z /zed/
1. (After {Zermelo-Frankel set theory}) A {specification language} developed by the {Programming Research Group} at Oxford University around 1980. Z is used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is based on {axiomatic set theory} and {first order predicate logic}. Z is written using many non-{ASCII} symbols. It was used in the {IBM} {CICS} project. See also {Z++}. ["Understanding Z", J.M. Spivey, Cambridge U Press 1988]. 2. A {stack}-based, complex arithmetic {simulation} language from {ZOLA Technologies}. (1995-08-11)
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