buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of
progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing; esp. said
of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code. A program
that is buzzing appears to be catatonic, but never gets out of
catatonia, while a buzzing loop may eventually end of its own
accord. "The program buzzes for about 10 seconds trying to sort all
the names into order." See spin; see also grovel. 2. [ETA
Systems] To test a wire or printed circuit trace for continuity,
esp. by applying an AC rather than DC signal. Some wire faults will
pass DC tests but fail an AC buzz test. 3. To process an array or
list in sequence, doing the same thing to each element. "This loop
buzzes through the tz array looking for a terminator type."
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