zed

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

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: Z z zee ezed izzard

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Zed \Zed\, n. [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See Zeta.] The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard. "Zed, thou unnecessary letter!" --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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).