OS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "os"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of Latin oculus sinister.

Symbol

OS

1. (optometry) the left eye

Alternative forms

• O.S.

Coordinate terms

• OD (“right eye”)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Proper noun

OS

1. (sports) Abbreviation of Owen Sound.
2. The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).

   Related terms: OSNI

Adjective

OS (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of outsize (clothes for large people)
2. Abbreviation of oversize.
3. 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
4. (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen; indicates a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen

Adverb

OS (not comparable)

1. (Australia, informal) Abbreviation of overseas.
   • 2015, Mick Houghton, I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny:

     You did the overseas trip. You went OS.

   • 2022, The Betoota Advocate, The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota, page 33:

     I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].

Noun

OS (plural OSes or OSs)

1. (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.

   We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.

   Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.

2. (software) Initialism of operating system.

   I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.

   • 2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems:

     Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]

   • 2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference:

     A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]

   • 2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide:

     In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

3. Abbreviation of ordinary seaman.

Derived terms

Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)

• AROS
• iOS
• JeOS
• macOS
• OS/2
• OS X
• RTOS

 

Translations

operating system

• Armenian: ՕՀ (ŌH)
• Korean: 운영 체제 (unyeong cheje)
• Polish: system operacyjny (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: SO (pt)
• Romanian: sistem de operare n, SO
• Thai: โอเอส
• Urdu: آپریٹنگ سسٹم (āpareṭiṅg sisṭam)

Anagrams

• S&O, SO, So, So., s.o., s/o, so

Chinese

Etymology

From initialism of English off-screen or English overlapping sound.

Noun

OS

1. (chiefly Taiwan, Internet slang) internal monologue

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈoːɛʃː]

Noun

OS (plural OS-ek)

1. (computing) Abbreviation of operating system.

   Synonym: operációs rendszer

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	OS	OS-ek
accusative	OS-t	OS-eket
dative	OS-nek	OS-eknek
instrumental	OS-sel	OS-ekkel
causal-final	OS-ért	OS-ekért
translative	OS-sé	OS-ekké
terminative	OS-ig	OS-ekig
essive-formal	OS-ként	OS-ekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	OS-ben	OS-ekben
superessive	OS-en	OS-eken
adessive	OS-nél	OS-eknél
illative	OS-be	OS-ekbe
sublative	OS-re	OS-ekre
allative	OS-hez	OS-ekhez
elative	OS-ből	OS-ekből
delative	OS-ről	OS-ekről
ablative	OS-től	OS-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	OS-é	OS-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	OS-éi	OS-ekéi

Possessive forms of OS
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	OS-em	OS-eim
2nd person sing.	OS-ed	OS-eid
3rd person sing.	OS-e	OS-ei
1st person plural	OS-ünk	OS-eink
2nd person plural	OS-etek	OS-eitek
3rd person plural	OS-ük	OS-eik

Japanese

Etymology

From English OS.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) オーエ​ス [òóéꜜsù] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [o̞ːe̞sɨᵝ]

Noun

OS(オーエス) • (ōesu) 

1. Abbreviation of オペレーティングシステム (operētingu shisutemu, “operating system”); an OS
   • 2011 October 21, Hikaru Nakamura, “その45(よんじゅうこ)　八(はっ)百(ぴゃく)万(まん)と九(くゅう)十(じゅう)九(くゅう)”, in 聖(セイント)☆おにいさん, volume 7 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:

     98(くゅうじゅうはち)の次(つぎ)のＯ(オー)Ｓ(エス)は2000(にせん)のはずなのに……このＯ(オー)Ｓ(エス)『99』(くゅうじゅうくゅう)だもん

     Kyūjūhachi no tsugi no ōesu wa nisen no hazu na noni... Kono ōesu “kyūjūkyū” da mon

     The successor OS of 98 is supposed to be 2000... But this OS is ‘99’

Swedish

Noun

OS

1. operating system; Initialism of operativsystem.
2. the Olympic Games; Initialism of olympiska spelen.

Anagrams

• SO, so