z
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- the ending of a series or sequence“the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end — The Bible, Revelations 22:13”Synonyms: omegaType of ending, conclusion
- 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: zeezedezedizzardType of letter, letter of the alphabetMember of Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet
- 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: zeezedezedizzardType of letter, letter of the alphabetMember of Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. …, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 273, 274.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
/zed/ <language, specification> 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.<language, simulation> A stack-based, complex arithmetic simulation language from ZOLA Technologies.
(1995-08-11)