De-rezz

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  de-rezz /dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"] (also
     `derez') 1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is
     of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then
     dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who seems to have suddenly
     `fuzzed out' mentally rather than physically. Usage: extremely silly,
     also rare. This verb was actually invented as _fictional_ hacker jargon,


     and adopted in a spirit of irony by real hackers years after the fact.
     2. vt. The Macintosh resource decompiler. On a Macintosh, many program
     structures (including the code itself) are managed in small segments of
     the program file known as `resources'; `Rez' and `DeRez' are a pair of
     utilities for compiling and decompiling resource files. Thus,
     decompiling a resource is `derezzing'. Usage: very common.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  de-rezz
       
           /dee-rez'/ (Or "derez") "de-resolve" via the film
          "Tron".  1. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with
          it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static
          and then dissolving.  Occasionally used of a person who seems
          to have suddenly "fuzzed out" mentally rather than physically.
          Usage: extremely silly, also rare.  This verb was actually
          invented as *fictional* hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit
          of irony by real hackers years after the fact.
       
          2. The Macintosh resource decompiler.  On a Macintosh, many
          program structures (including the code itself) are managed in
          small segments of the program file known as "resources"; "Rez"
          and "DeRez" are a pair of utilities for compiling and
          decompiling resource files.  Thus, decompiling a resource is
          "derezzing".  Usage: very common.
       
          [{Jargon File}]