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."
