The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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]