May 15, 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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:22 AM

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