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Definition of 'OS'

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • oculus sinister — left eye
  • outsize

    • Derived terms

    * (operating system) RTOS , JeOS

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
    • We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
  • (software) operating system
    • I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
  • * 2008 , Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
    • Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before
  • * 2010 , Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
    • A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000
  • * 2009 , Emmett Dulaney', CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
    • In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

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    Similar to 'OS'

    OCS, OSS, OAS, OOS, OWS