dos
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Is dos a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (military) Initialism of date of service.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
2. (military) Initialism of date of separation.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
3. (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.Internetabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
4. (sciences) Initialism of density of states.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
5. (education) Initialism of director of studies.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
6. (emergency services) Initialism of death on scene.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
name (English)
1. (computing, historical) Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.Examples: "Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file."; "One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS."abbreviationacronymalt-ofhistorical
2. (US politics) Initialism of Department of State.Synonyms: Foggy BottomUSabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
noun (English)
1. (music) plural of doExamples: "In functional harmonic progression, three “Dos” in a row within the Do-Ti test indicate chord changes that can only be this descending third pattern."form-ofplural
noun (English)
1. (computing, Internet) A denial-of-service attack.Internet
verb (English)
1. (transitive, computing, Internet) To commit a denial-of-service attack against.Examples: "In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash. A packet's payload is taken as input into a service. If the input is not properly checked, the application can be DoSed."Internettransitive
noun (English)
1. (teaching) Director of Studies; someone in charge of the academic side of a school including training teachers and deciding course materials.
Definition source: Wiktionary