Usually means: Software managing hardware and applications.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word operating systems:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. operating systems: Merriam-Webster
  2. operating systems: Collins English Dictionary
  3. operating systems: Vocabulary.com
  4. operating systems: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. operating systems: Wiktionary
  6. Operating systems: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Operating systems: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. operating systems: CCI Computer
  2. Operating Systems: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. Operating systems: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Operating systems: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Operating systems: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See operating_system 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.
▸ Also see operating_system

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