operating system

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/
• (General American) enPR: ŏp′ə-rāt'ĭng sĭs'təm, IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra‧ting sys‧tem

Noun

operating system (plural operating systems)

2. (computing, 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.

Synonyms

• OS

Hypernyms

• system

Hyponyms

• asynchronous operating system
• atomic operating system
• back-end operating system
• cloud-based operating system
• database operating system
• disk operating system
• distributed database operating system
• distributed operating system
• embedded operating system
• front-end operating system
• fuzzy operating system
• guest operating system
• in-memory operating system
• library operating system
• logical operating system
• logic operating system
• middleware operating system
• mobile operating system
• network operating system
• safety-critical operating system
• security-evaluated operating system
• security-focused operating system
• synchronous operating system
• templated operating system
• trusted operating system
• Web operating system

 

Translations

software which controls the computer

• Afrikaans: bedryfstelsel
• Arabic: نِظَام تَشْغِيل m (niẓām tašḡīl)
• Armenian: օպերացիոն համակարգ (ōperacʻion hamakarg)
• Asturian: sistema operativu m
• Azerbaijani: əməliyyat sistemi
• Bangala: পরিচালন সিস্টেম
• Basque: sistema eragile
• Belarusian: аперацы́йная сістэ́ма f (apjeracýjnaja sistéma)
• Bulgarian: операцио́нна систе́ма f (operaciónna sistéma)
• Catalan: sistema operatiu m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 操作系統／操作系统 (chok-gia̍p hē-thóng)

  Mandarin: 操作系統／操作系统 (zh) (cāozuò xìtǒng)

• Czech: operační systém (cs) m
• Danish: styresystem n, operativsystem n
• Dutch: besturingssysteem (nl) n
• Esperanto: operaciumo (eo)
• Estonian: operatsioonisüsteem
• Finnish: käyttöjärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système d’exploitation (fr) m
• Galician: sistema operativo m
• Georgian: ოპერაციული სისტემა (oṗeraciuli sisṭema)
• German: Betriebssystem (de) n
• Greek: λειτουργικό σύστημα (el) n (leitourgikó sýstima)
• Haitian Creole: sistèm operasyon
• Hebrew: מערכת הפעלה (he) f (ma'arékhet-haf'alá)
• Hungarian: operációs rendszer (hu)
• Icelandic: stýrikerfi (is) n, stjórnkerfi n (rare)
• Ido: operaco-sistemo
• Indonesian: sistem operasi, sistem operasional, sistem pengoperasian
• Interlingua: systema de operation
• Irish: córas oibriúcháin m
• Italian: sistema operativo (it) m
• Japanese: オペレーティングシステム (ja) (opēretingu shisutemu)
• Kashubian: òperacjowô systema
• Kazakh: операциялық жүйе (operasiälyq jüie)
• Korean: 운영 체제(運營體制) (unyeong cheje), 오퍼레이팅 시스템 (opeoreiting siseutem), 조작체계(操作體系) (jojakchegye)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sîstema şixulandinê

• Lao: ລະບົບປະຕິບັດການ (la bop pa ti bat kān)
• Latin: systema internum n, systema operationis n
• Latvian: operacionālā sistēma
• Lithuanian: operacinė sistema (lt)
• Low German: Bedriefsysteem
• Macedonian: операти́вен систем m (operatíven sistem)
• Malagasy: mpandrindra milina (mg)
• Malay: sistem pengendalian, sistem pengoperasian
• Malayalam: ഓപറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം (ōpaṟēṟṟiṅṅŭ sisṟṟaṁ)
• Maori: pūnaha mahi
• Mongolian: үйлдлийн систем (üjldliin sistem), ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠯ
  ᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠢᠰᠲ᠋ᠧᠮ (üiledül ün sistēm)
• Norman: système d'opéthâtion m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: operativsystem n

  Nynorsk: operativsystem n

• Persian: سیستم عامل (sistem 'âmel)
• Polish: system operacyjny (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: (Portugal) sistema operativo (pt) m, (Brazil) sistema operacional (pt) m
• Romanian: sistem de operare n, sistem operațional n (dated)
• Russian: операцио́нная систе́ма (ru) f (operaciónnaja sistéma), операцио́нка (ru) f (operaciónka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оперативни систем m, опера́цӣјскӣ су́став m

  Roman: operativni sistem m, operácījskī sústav m

• Slovak: operačný systém (sk) m
• Slovene: operacijski sistem m
• Spanish: sistema operativo (es) m
• Swedish: operativsystem (sv) n
• Tamil: இயங்குதளம் (iyaṅkutaḷam)
• Thai: ระบบปฏิบัติการ (rá-bòp-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan)
• Turkish: işletim sistemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: операці́йна систе́ма f (operacíjna systéma)
• Uyghur: مەشغۇلات سىستېمىسى (meshghulat sistëmisi)
• Vietnamese: hệ điều hành (vi)
• Welsh: system weithredu
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

• List of operating systems on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• operating system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia