Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OS
OS
Definitions of OS
- An osar or esker.
- (sports) Abbreviation of Owen Sound.
- (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen; indicates a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen
- (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
- (software) Initialism of operating system.
- (anatomy) Synonym of bone.
- (rare) Alternative form of o's..
- The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
- plural of O.
- Initialism of outsize (clothes for large people)
- Initialism of oversize.
- Initialism of Old Style; a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar
- (film) Initialism of over shoulder.
- (AU, informal) Initialism of overseas.
- Initialism of ordinary seaman.
- Initialism of oppidan scholar.
- (anatomy, sometimes, botany) An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
Number of letters
2
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using OS in a Sentence
- Initially a DOS application, subsequent versions were later released for other platforms including Classic Mac OS (1992), Microsoft Windows (1993) and macOS (2010), iOS (2010), and Android (2011).
- Diablo II is a 2000 action role-playing game developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS, and OS X.
- Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1990), macOS (2001), Web browsers (2010), iOS (2014) and Android (2015).
- Within the market of desktop and laptop computers, it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of all Linux distributions, including ChromeOS and SteamOS.
- The first game in the Quake series, it was originally released for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux in 1996, followed by Mac OS and Sega Saturn in 1997 and Nintendo 64 in 1998.
- It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O.
- There are many different process models, some of which are light weight, but almost all processes (even entire virtual machines) are rooted in an operating system (OS) process which comprises the program code, assigned system resources, physical and logical access permissions, and data structures to initiate, control and coordinate execution activity.
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