Usually means: Software managing hardware and applications.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word operating system:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. operating system: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. operating system: Merriam-Webster
  3. operating system: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. operating system: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. operating system: Collins English Dictionary
  6. operating system: Vocabulary.com
  7. operating-system: Wordnik
  8. operating system: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. operating-system, operating system: Wiktionary
  10. operating system: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. operating system: Dictionary.com
  12. Operating System, Operating system: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. operating system: Rhymezone
  14. operating system: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. operating system: FreeDictionary.org
  16. operating system: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. operating system: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. operating system: Legal dictionary
  2. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. operating system: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. operating system: Netlingo
  3. Operating System, operating system: CCI Computer
  4. Operating System: Cybernetics and Systems
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. operating system: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Operating System: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. operating system: Hacking Lexicon
  10. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Technopedia (No longer online)
  12. operating system: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. operating system: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operating system: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  3. Operating system: Web Hosting Glossary

(Note: See operating_systems as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (operating system)

noun:  (computing, software) Software that is designed for controlling the allocation and the use of various hardware resources to tasks and remote terminals.

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