Source : WordNet®

Zen
     n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can
          come through meditation and intuition rather than faith;
          China and Japan [syn: {Zen Buddhism}]
     2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained
        through direct intuitive insight [syn: {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}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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

zen
     
         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)