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zed

  [zed] ,
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–noun Chiefly British.
1. the letter Z or z.
2. a Z-bar.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < MF zede < L zēta < Gk zêta zeta

Zed

  [zed] ,
–noun
a male given name, form of Zedekiah.
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zed   (zěd)   
n.   Chiefly British
The letter z.

[Middle English, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zēta, zeta, from Greek; see zeta.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

zed 
c.1400, from M.Fr. zede, from L.L. zeta, from Gk. zeta, from Heb. zayin, letter name, lit. "weapon;" so called in allusion to the shape of this letter in ancient Hebrew. U.S. pronunciation zee is first attested 1677. Other dialectal names for the letter are izzard, ezod, uzzard and zod.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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).

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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