Usually means: Operating system for managing hardware.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word OS:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. os: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. OS, Os, -os, o's, os: Merriam-Webster
  3. OS, OS, O's, Os, Os, Os, o.s, os, os: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. OS, Os, o.s, os, os, os: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. O's, o.s, os: Collins English Dictionary
  6. OS, Os, os: Vocabulary.com
  7. O'S, OS, O's, O.'s, O.s, O.s, Os, Os, o's, os, oS: Wordnik
  8. OS, o's, os: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. O.S, OS, O's, -os, -os-, o's, o.s, os: Wiktionary
  10. o.s, os: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Os, os: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. os: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Os, o's, o.s, os: Dictionary.com
  14. os: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OS, O.s, Os (Fringe), Os: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. O's, Os: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. os: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. os: Rhymezone
  19. O's, Os, os (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. O.S, OS, Os, o.s: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. os: FreeDictionary.org
  22. os: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Os, o's, o.s: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. os(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. os-, os-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. os: Legal dictionary
  3. o's, os: Financial dictionary

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. OS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. OS: Netlingo
  3. OS: CCI Computer
  4. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  6. OS: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. OS: Hacking Lexicon
  8. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Os, o's, o.s: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. OS: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. OS (lens prescription), Os: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. O.S, Os, -os, o's, o.s: Medical dictionary
  7. OS (lens prescription), Os: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. OS, OS, OS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. OS: Genealogy Glossary
  4. OS-, OS: Acronym Finder
  5. os, os: A Word A Day
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. os: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. OS, Os: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. Os: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Os: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. O.S, OS, OS, O's, o.s: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. os: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. OS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See ora as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
noun:  (UK) An Ordnance Survey map.
noun:  (anatomy) Synonym of bone.
noun:  (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).
noun:  An osar or esker.
noun:  (sports) Abbreviation of Owen Sound. [A placename]
adjective:  Abbreviation of outsize (clothes for large people) [of an unusually large size]
adjective:  Abbreviation of oversize. [Larger than normal]
adjective:  Abbreviation 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
adjective:  (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen; indicates a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen [Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen]
adverb:  (Australia, informal) Abbreviation of overseas. [Abroad.]
noun:  (software) Initialism of operating system. [(computing, software) Software that is designed for controlling the allocation and the use of various hardware resources to tasks and remote terminals.]
noun:  Initialism of ordinary seaman. [(nautical) The lowest grade of seaman in the merchant marine; the grade below able-bodied seaman.]
noun:  Initialism of oppidan scholar.
noun:  (rare) Alternative form of o's.

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