operating system

operating system

n.

Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.

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operating system

Noun

the software controlling a computer

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operating system  (p-rtng)

Software designed to handle basic elements of computer operation, such as sending instructions to hardware devices like disk drives and computer screens, and allocating system resources such as memory to different software applications being run. Given uniformly designed operating systems that run on many different computers, developers of software do not need to concern themselves with these problems, and are provided with a standard platform for new programs.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

operating system - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services OS platform - the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures software, software package, software program, software system, computer software, package - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" disk operating system, DOS - an operating system that is on a disk UNIX, UNIX operating system, UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system executive program, supervisory program, supervisor - a program that controls the execution of other programs Windows - (trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface

Translations

operating system n (Comput) → système m d'exploitation

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operating system operate n (Comput) → Betriebssystem nt

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operating system n (COMPUT) → sistema m operativo