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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