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Translingual

Symbol

Symbol for osmium.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

A municipality in Hedmark, Norway.
A municipality in Hordaland, Norway.

Category:no:Municipalities in Norway

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English O \O\ ([=o]), n.; pl. O's or Oes ([=o]z).
1. The letter O, or its sound. "Mouthing out his hollow oes
and aes." --Tennyson.
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2. Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval.
"This wooden O [Globe Theater]". --Shak.
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3. A cipher; zero. [R.]
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Thou art an O without a figure. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Os \Os\, n. (Chem.)
The chemical symbol for the element osmium.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Os \Os\, n.; pl. Ossa. [L.]
A bone.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Os \Os\, n.; pl. Ora. [L.]
A mouth; an opening; an entrance.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Os \Os\, n.; pl. Osar. [Sw. [*a]s ridge, chain of hills, pl.
[*a]sar.] (Geol.)
One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc.,
supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed
by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of
Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.
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WordNet Os
n 1: a mouth or mouthlike opening
2: a hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black metallic element that
is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
[syn: osmium, atomic number 76]
3: (computer science) software that controls the execution of
computer programs and may provide various services [syn: {operating
system}]
4: the left eye [syn: oculus sinister]
5: rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of
vertebrates [syn: bone]
[also: ossa (pl), osar (pl), ora (pl)]

OS Operating System

Jargon OS /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An abbreviation heavily used in
email, occasionally in speech. 2. n. obs. On ITS, an output spy. See
"OS and JEDGAR" in Appendix A.

FOLDOC OS

1. operating system.

2. [obsolete, ITS], an output spy. See "OS and JEDGAR".

3. An operating system from IBM for
their System/360 line of hardware announced in 1964. OS was
planned with several flavours that were supposed to be
compatible. OS was late, memory hungry and not able to reach
the marketing objectives of IBM for the 360/30, the planned
successor of the IBM 1401. IBM then decided to design a new
operating system for the low end machines which they called
DOS/360.

[Jargon File]

(1997-09-22)