zen
<jargon> 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)
Nearby terms:
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Zermelo Fränkel set theory
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