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What (who) is zap - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Zap!; ZAP; Zap (disambiguation)
ZAP
1. <language> A language for expressing program
transformations.
["A System for Assisting Program Transformation",
M.S. Feather, ACM TOPLAS 4(1):1-20, Jan 1982 ].
2. Zero and Add Packed.
(2001-03-25)
zap
<jargon> 1. To modify, usually to correct; especially used
when the action is performed with a debugger or binary
patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the
debug level to 6 and run it again."
In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to
programs or to the operating system with a program called
"superzap", whose file name is "IMASPZAP" (possibly
contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).
See also Zero and Add Packed.
2. To fry a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh - I think
that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
(1998-07-08)
zap
(zaps, zapping, zapped)
1.
To zap someone or something means to kill, destroy, or hit them, for example with a gun or in a computer game. (INFORMAL)
A guard zapped him with the stun gun.
VERB: V n
2.
If you zap channels while watching television, you change channels using the remote control. (INFORMAL)
Men like to zap the TV channels, something that can drive certain women berserk.
VERB: V n
3.
To zap something such as a computer file or document means to to delete it from the computer memory or to clear it from the screen. (COMPUTING INFORMAL)
VERB
Examples of use of zap
1. Zap and the Qandil Mountains are both major PKK strongholds.
2. It communicates instant intimacy, a little zap of Clintonesque magic.
3. The charged breeze could zap the accretion disc‘s spin energy.
4. The military said the hideouts were located in the Zap region, near Iraq‘s border with Turkey.
5. The usual caveat applies: Shop around and make sure fees don‘t zap your investment.