Zen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zen	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Zen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Zen n school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan Synonym(s): Zen, Zen Buddhism a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight Synonym(s): Zen, Zen Buddhism street name for lysergic acid diethylamide Synonym(s): acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Zen [Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.] [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)