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| z [n] | | | | | 1) | the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation |
| | Synonyms : | omega | | See Also:
| conclusion | | | | | 2) | 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" |
| | Synonyms : | ezed izzard zed zee | | See Also:
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)
/zed/ 1. (After {Zermelo-Fränkel set theory}) A specification language developed by the Programming Research Group at Oxford University around 1980. Z is used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is based on axiomatic set theory and first order predicate logic. Z is written using many non-ASCII symbols. It was used in the IBM CICS project.
See also Z++.
["Understanding Z", J.M. Spivey, Cambridge U Press 1988].
2. A stack-based, complex arithmetic simulation language from ZOLA Technologies.
(1995-08-11)
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