zen

4 definitions found

zen - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Zen
      n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment
           can come through meditation and intuition rather than
           faith; China and Japan [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
      2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained
         through direct intuitive insight [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
      3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
         back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
         loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
         superman, window pane, Zen]

zen - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Zen
  
     [Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.]
  
     [Jargon File]
  

  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)
  

zen - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  zen
   vt.
  
     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.