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See also: Appendix:Variations of "os"
Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
OS
- (optometry) the left eye
Alternative forms
Coordinate terms
- OD (“right eye”)
English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
OS
- (sports) Initialism of Owen Sound.
- The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
- Related terms: OSNI
- (linguistics) Initialism of Old Saxon.
Adjective
OS (not comparable)
- 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.
- (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
- (film) Initialism of over shoulder.
Adverb
OS (not comparable)
- (Australia, informal) Initialism of overseas.
- 2015, Mick Houghton, I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny:
- You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
- 2022, The Betoota Advocate, The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota, page 33:
- I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
Noun
- (UK) An Ordnance Survey map.
- We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
- Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
- (software) Initialism of 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).
- Initialism of ordinary seaman.
- Initialism of oppidan scholar.
Derived terms
Translations
operating system
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Chinese
Etymology
From initialism of English off-screen or English overlapping sound.
Pronunciation
Noun
OS
- (chiefly Taiwan, Internet slang) internal monologue
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
OS (plural OS-ek)
- (computing) abbreviation of operating system
- Synonym: operációs rendszer
Declension
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Japanese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
OS • (ōesu)
- abbreviation of オペレーティングシステム (operētingu shisutemu, “operating system”): OS
- 2011 October 21, Hikaru Nakamura, “その45 八百万と九十九 [Chapter 45: Eight Million and Ninety-Nine]”, in 聖☆おにいさん [Saint☆Young Men], volume 7 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:
- 98の次のOSは2000のはずなのに……このOS『99』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’
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Swedish
Noun
OS
- operating system; initialism of operativsystem
- an Olympiad (instance of the Olympic Games); initialism of olympiskt spel
- ett OS
- an Olympiad
- ett sommar-OS
- a summer Olympic Games
- ett vinter-OS
- a winter Olympic Games
- the Olympic Games, the Olympics; initialism of olympiska spelen
- OS i Lillehammer
- the Olympic Games in Lillehammer
- delta i OS
- participate in the Olympic Games
- tävla i OS
- compete in the Olympic Games
- sommar-OS
- summer Olympics
- vinter-OS
- winter Olympics
- OS-elden
- the Olympic flame
- OS-facklan
- the Olympic torch
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