What is the difference between external and os?
external | os |
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
Ordnance Survey
oculus sinister — left eye
outsize
(UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
(software) operating system
* 2008 , Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
* 2010 , Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
* 2009 , Emmett Dulaney', CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
As a adjective external
is outside of something.As a noun os is
{{context|rare|medicine|lang=en}} bone or os can be (rare) a mouth; an opening or os can be an osar or esker.external
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom
Antonyms
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* * * English words suffixed with -alos
English
Initialism
(Initialism) (head)Derived terms
* (operating system) RTOS , JeOSNoun
(en-noun)- We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
- I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
- 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
- A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000
- In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).