from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
de-rezz
/dee.rez'/
[from `de-resolve' via the movie Tron] (also derez)
1. vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an
object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving.
Occasionally used of a person who seems to have suddenly `fuzzed out'
mentally rather than physically. Usage: extremely silly, also rare.
This verb was actually invented as fictional hacker jargon, and
adopted in a spirit of irony by real hackers years after the fact.
2. vt. The Macintosh resource decompiler. On a Macintosh, many program
structures (including the code itself) are managed in small segments
of the program file known as resources; Rez and DeRez are a pair of
utilities for compiling and decompiling resource files. Thus,
decompiling a resource is derezzing. Usage: very common.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
de-rezz
<jargon> /dee-rez'/ (Or "derez") "de-resolve" via the film
"Tron". 1. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with
it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static
and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who seems
to have suddenly "fuzzed out" mentally rather than physically.
Usage: extremely silly, also rare. This verb was actually
invented as *fictional* hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit
of irony by real hackers years after the fact.
2. The Macintosh resource decompiler. On a Macintosh, many
program structures (including the code itself) are managed in
small segments of the program file known as "resources"; "Rez"
and "DeRez" are a pair of utilities for compiling and
decompiling resource files. Thus, decompiling a resource is
"derezzing". Usage: very common.
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