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Define the word zed

"Zed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

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]

"zed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

zed
     n : 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" [syn: Z, zee, ezed,
          izzard]

"zed" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

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).