DOS Definition

dŏs, dôs
noun

An operating system that resides on a disk.

Webster's New World

Plural form of do.

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Synonyms:
abbreviation
(computing, Internet) Denial of Service.
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(teaching) Director of Studies; someone in charge of the academic side of a school including training teachers and deciding course materials.

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other

A generic term describing an operating system (OS) that loads from a disk device when the computer system is turned on. Earlier, more primitive OSs loaded from magnetic tape or even paper tape, or were resident in memory. See also OS.

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Origin of DOS

  • d(isk) o(perating) s(ystem)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

DOS Sentence Examples

  • In early works it is sometimes termed Cidade dos Reis (City of the Kings).

  • Portugal Portugal could long boast of only one review, the Jornal enciclopedico (1779-1806), which had many interruptions; then came the Jornal de Coimbra (1812-1820); the Panorama (1836-1857), founded by Herculano; the Revista universal lisbonense (1841-1853), established by Castilho; the Instituto (1853) of Coimbra; the Archivo pittoresco (1857) of Lisbon; and the Jornal do sociedade dos amigos das letteras.

  • The longest and most prominent of these ranges, which are for the most part the eastern escarpments of the great Brazilian plateau, is the Serra dos Aymores, which extends along fully two-thirds of the western frontier.

  • This section during the past century has extended southward along the bay shore in a string of suburbs known as the Cattete and Botafogo, with that of Larangeiras behind the Cattete in a pretty valley of the same name, and thence on or near the Atlantic coast as Largo dos Leoes, Copacabana and Gavea, the last including the Botanical Garden.

  • Porto Alegre was founded in 1743 by immigrants from the Azores and was at first known as Porto dos Cazaes.

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Words Starting With D and Ending With S

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