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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {catatonic}{deep space}{infinite loop}{spin}]