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."