Zen

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Zen
       n 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)