<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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Nearby terms:
deque « DER « dereference « de-rezz » derived class » derived type » DES
