Zed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Zed \Zed\, n. [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See
     {Zeta}.]
     The letter {Z}; -- called also {zee}, and formerly {izzard}.
     "Zed, thou unnecessary letter!" --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  zed
       n : 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 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).