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 Definitions for Zed: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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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]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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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).
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