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map | os |

As an initialism map

is (travel) modified american plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.

As a verb os is

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map

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March–April
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps , diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (mathematics)   A function.
  • The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
  • (topology)   A continuous function.
  • A diagram of components of an item.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • The butterfly .
  • (UK, old-fashioned)   Someone's face.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter X , passage=And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.}}
  • (board games, computer games)   A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.
  • "I don't want to play this map again!"

    Synonyms

    * plan * chart * (mathematics) mapping, function.

    Derived terms

    * argument map * concept map * * mapmaker * mapmaking * mind map * overworld map * texture map * thematic map * topic map

    Verb

    (mapp)
  • To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
  • To inform someone of a particular idea.
  • (mathematics) To act as a function on.
  • f'' maps''' ''A'' to ''B'', ' mapping a\in A to b\in B.
  • (topology) To act as a continuous function on.
  • The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.

    Derived terms

    * map out

    os

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • oculus sinister — left eye
  • outsize
  • Derived terms

    * (operating system) RTOS , JeOS

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
  • We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
  • (software) operating system
  • I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
  • * 2008 , Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
  • 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
  • * 2010 , Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
  • A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000
  • * 2009 , Emmett Dulaney', CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
  • In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

    Anagrams

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