operating system

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operating system (plural operating systems)

  1. (software) Software for controlling the allocation and use of various hardware resources (memory, CPU time, disk space, input and output devices) to tasks and remote terminals.
    This operating system enjoys little market share but the software is open source and free, and it performs as just as well as the leading competitor's.

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