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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. software Software that controls the allocation and usage of hardware resources such as memory, CPU time, disk space, and input and output devices.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services

Examples

  • “Palm’s sleek electronic organizers took off faster than color TVs, cell phones, and CD players, and now account for approximately 70 percent of the worldwide market, but nipping at the company’s heels is its key rival, Microsoft, whose PocketPC operating system a modified version of Windows CE was chosen by Hewlett-Packard to drive its Jornado, by Compaq for its iPAQ, and by Casio and Siemens for devices that will compete with Palm’s.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE NEW MARKET LEADERS

  • “The first version to run under the ProDOS operating system was called Apple Writer 2.0.”

    The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Software

  • “Notice the use of os. sep variable - this gives the directory separator according to your operating system i.e. it will be”

    A Byte of Python

  • “The BIP-6000 running the Android operating system features a fast 806 MHz processor, QWERTY or numeric keypad, 1D bar code scanning, 3MP camera with autofocus and flash, GSM voice, HSDPA 3G cellular data, and a VGA (480x640 resolution) 3. 5-inch TouchWindow LCD screen.”

    Softpedia - Windows - All

  • “Anthony Michael Hall went on to portray Bill Gates to Noah Wyle’s Steve Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley, a solid 1999 made-for-TV movie about the PC and operating system revolution of the 1980s.”

    Simon & Schuster: Dont You Forget About Me

  • “Episode 55: Nokia Booklet 3G: iPhone's single-task operating system renders it a poor man's Nokia:”

    Mobile Industry Review

  • “Known as a “water-based mechanism,” this was the standard operating system behind all Egyptian moving-wall traps.”

    Simon & Schuster: Seven Deadly Wonders

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hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. software system
  1. computer software
  1. software
  1. software package
  1. package
  1. software program

hyponyms (6)

Words that are more specific

  1. unix system
  1. disk operating system
  1. Windows
  1. unix operating system
  1. unix
  1. DOS

reverse dictionary (55)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Linux
  2. MS-DOS
  3. DOS
  4. unix
  5. unix operating system
  6. unix system
  7. Windows
  8. disk operating system
  9. microsoft disk operating system
  10. binary
  11. binary program
  1. cascade system
  2. environment
  3. macintosh
  4. BIOS
  5. shakedown
  6. configuration
  7. log
  8. picker-motion
  9. open-source
  10. fragmentation
  11. warm boot
  1. systems programming
  2. boot block
  3. system error
  4. system program
  5. systems program
  6. systems software
  7. unix guru
  8. private enterprise
  9. railroad line
  10. railway
  11. railway system
  1. reboot
  2. boot
  3. crash
  4. default
  5. documentation
  6. envelope
  7. operative
  8. shell
  9. UNIX
  10. indicator
  11. initialisation
  1. initialization
  2. job control language
  3. low-level formatting
  4. partition
  5. platform
  6. railroad
  7. railway line
  8. bring up
  9. bus line
  10. c
  11. third-rail system

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