Meaning of ZAP
| Pronunciation: | | zap
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- [v] cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the left-overs"
- [v] strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy"
- [v] kill with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
- [v] strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"
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| | Synonyms: | | atomise, atomize, micro-cook, microwave, nuke, nuke |
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| | See Also: | | affect, bomb, bombard, cook, impress, kill, move, strike | |
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1. 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. 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."
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