Zed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zed	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Zed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zed \Zed\, n. [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See {Zeta}.] The letter {Z}; -- called also {zee}, and formerly {izzard}. [bd]Zed, thou unnecessary letter![b8] --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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).