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OS
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Appendix:Variations of "os"
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of mul la oculus sinister.
Symbol
mul optometry the left eye
Alternative forms
mul O.S.
Coordinate terms
mul OD right eye
English
Pronunciation
en /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-OS.wav US
Proper noun
en sports en Owen Sound.
en The en Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain see also the noun below.
Related terms: en OSNI
en linguistics en Old Saxon.
Adjective
-
en outsize clothes for large people.
en oversize.
en 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.
en screenwriting en offscreen indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
en film en over shoulder.
Adverb
-
en AU informal en overseas.
en 2015 Mick Houghton I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
en 2022 The Betoota Advocate The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota 33 I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
Noun
es s 's
en UK An Ordnance Survey map.
en We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
en Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
en software en operating system.
en I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
en 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
en 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
en 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).
en ordinary seaman.
en oppidan scholar.
Derived terms
en Terms derived from OS (“operating system”) AROS iOS JeOS macOS OS/2 OS X RTOS watchOS tvOS iPadOS webOS
Translations
abbreviation of operating system
Arabic: ar أو إس m
Armenian: hy ՕՀ
French: fr SE m rare, fr OS m
Galician: gl SO m
Italian: it SO m
Japanese: ja OS Ō esu, ja オーエス Ō esu
Korean: ko 오에스
Polish: pl OS m-in
Portuguese: pt SO m
Romanian: ro SO
Spanish: es SO m
Thai: th โอเอส
See also
en OS diaper OS nappy
Anagrams
en os SO S/O s.o. so So So. S&O s/o S.O.
Chinese
Etymology
From an zh en:off-screen,en:overlapping sound 1.
Pronunciation
zh
Noun
zh noun
zh chiefly Taiwan internet slang internal monologue
zh terms written in foreign scripts
Hungarian
Pronunciation
óess
Noun
-ek
hu computing hu en:operating system
hu operációs rendszer
Declension
OS-e e - sOS- ei
Japanese
ja:
Etymology
From ja en OS.
Pronunciation
オーエス 3
Noun
オーエス
ja オペレーティングシステム operētingu shisutemu operating system: en OS
ja Oct 21 2011 Hikaru Nakamura 聖☆おにいさん [聖](セイント)☆おにいさん Saint Young Men Saint☆Young Men [98](くゅうじゅうはち)の[次](つぎ)の[O](オー)[S](エス)は[2000](にせん)のはずなのに……この[O](オー)[S](エス)[『99』](くゅうじゅうくゅう)だもん Kyūjūhachi no tsugi no ōesu wa nisen no hazu na noni... Kono ōesu “kyūjūkyū” da mon The successor OS of 98 is supposed to be 2000... But this OS is ‘99’ その[45](よんじゅうこ) [八](はっ)[百](ぴゃく)[万](まん)と[九](くゅう)[十](じゅう)[九](くゅう) Chapter 45: Eight Million and Ninety-Nine fiction Tokyo Kodansha 7 978-4-06-387026-8
ja Software Systems
ja terms written in foreign scripts
Swedish
sv:
Noun
sv noun
operating system; sv operativsystem
an Olympiad (instance of the Olympic Games); sv olympiskt spel
sv ett OS an Olympiad
sv ett sommar-OS a summer Olympic Games
sv ett vinter-OS a winter Olympic Games
the Olympic Games, the Olympics; sv olympiska spelen
sv OS i Lillehammer the Olympic Games in Lillehammer
sv delta i OS participate in the Olympic Games
sv tävla i OS compete in the Olympic Games
sv sommar-OS summer Olympics
sv vinter-OS winter Olympics
sv sv OS-elden OS-elden the Olympic flame
sv sv OS-facklan OS-facklan the Olympic torch
References
so
saol
Anagrams
sv os SO so