Z

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Z
       n 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)