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Date "TOS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TOS |
Space | Transfer Orbit Stage, upper stage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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2. The operating system of the Atari ST range of computers. This range included the 512ST, 1040ST and the F, FM and E variations (e.g.1040STE). Later, 32-bit machines (TT, Falcon030 and MegaSTE) were developed using a new version of TOS, called MultiTOS which was based on MinT.
TOS went through several revisions starting initially as a derivative of CP/M, but developing into a remarkably complete and flexible operating system. Features include: a flat memory model, MS-DOS-compatible disk format and support for MIDI and SCSI (in later versions). TOS was designed to run Atari's version of the GEM GUI.
There is some argument as to what TOS stands for, the main candidates being "Tramiel Operating System" (named after Atari's head at the time) or simply "The Operating System".
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4. Star Trek The Original Series as opposed to ST-TNG or ST-DS9.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TOS | Dutch | Systeem dat geregeld is volgens de tijd | Electrical Engineering |
TOS | English | Transfer Orbit Stage | N/A |
TOS | Swedish | Thoracic outlet syndrom | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TOS |
| Specialty definitions using "TOS": Basic Operating System ♦ Elvis ♦ MultiTOS ♦ Tape Operating System, Terms Of Service. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TOS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (tot), Spanish (cough, coughing, croup), Turkish (butt). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | ESSA 4 lifts off. Pre-launch designated TOS B. Launch Vehicle was Delta 45. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | ESSA 9 lifts off on Delta Launch Vehicle 67. Pre-launch designated TOS G. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | A night launch of meteorological satellite ESSA 9. Pre-launch designated TOS G. Credit: NOAA in Space. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | TOS has been appointed the sole repair source within Pratt & Whitney (P&W) for the high-pressure turbine airfoils of the PW2000 and JT9D-7R4 engines. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "TOS" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TOS": lean-tos, Sinix-tos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tos | 144 | linux how tos | 4 |
how tos | 60 | tos updo | 4 |
lean tos | 38 | convulsiva tos | 4 |
hair tos | 28 | kurim tos | 4 |
bmx tos | 24 | craft tos | 4 |
star trek tos | 23 | caseros la para remedios tos | 4 |
hair style tos | 23 | schematic tos | 4 |
make tos up | 21 | de kurim mecánicos tos variadores velocidad | 3 |
r tos us | 18 | remedios tos | 3 |
sex how tos | 15 | tos link | 3 |
report tos | 15 | ferina paperas tos vacunas | 3 |
tos management | 12 | seca tos | 3 |
ferina tos | 10 | decorating tos | 3 |
plumbing how tos | 9 | insurance tos | 3 |
computer how tos | 8 | tos violation | 3 |
bmx tos trick | 7 | atari st tos | 3 |
aol tos | 5 | car tos | 3 |
tos lathe | 5 | civic honda tos | 3 |
la para remedios tos | 5 | home improvement tos | 3 |
masturbation tos | 5 | star story tos trek | 3 |
mustang tos | 4 | tos yahoo | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "TOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 文本编制系统. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ostay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TOS": tosh, toshes, toss, tossed, tosser, tossers, tosses, tossing, tosspot, tosspots, tossup, tossups, tost, tostada, tostadas, tostado, tostados. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TOS": aggiornamentos, allegrettos, altos, amarettos, amorettos, anattos, annattos, antipastos, aristos, arnattos, arnottos, asbestos, autos, bonitos, burritos, cabrestos, cantos, castratos, cavettos, centos, cestos, cinquecentos, cogitos, concertos, contos, contraltos, coquitos, corantos, cornutos, courantos, cryptos, custos, datos, dattos, dittos, divertimentos, duecentos, espartos, falsettos, fianchettos, fugatos, gelatos, ghettos, grottos, hornitos, impastos, incognitos, jatos, juntos, kotos, larghettos. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TOS": acetose, aftosa, aftosas, agranulocytoses, agranulocytosis, altostrati, altostratus, amitoses, amitosis, apatosaurus, apatosauruses, apoptoses, apoptosis, asbestoses, asbestosis, autosexing, autosomal, autosomally, autosome, autosomes, autostrada, autostradas, autostrade, autosuggest, autosuggested, autosuggesting, autosuggestion, autosuggestions, autosuggests, blastospore, blastospores, brontosaur, brontosaurs, brontosaurus, brontosauruses, caespitose, carcinomatoses, carcinomatosis, chitosan, chitosans, comatose, crustose, cystoscope, cystoscopes, cystoscopic, cystoscopies, cystoscopy, cytosine, cytosines, cytoskeletal, cytoskeleton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sot. | |
| Words within the letters "o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bots, cost, cots, dost, dots, host, hots, jots, lost, lots, most, mots, oast, oats, oots, opts, orts, oust, outs, post, pots, rots, scot, shot, slot, snot, soft, soot, sort, soth, sots, spot, stoa, stob, stop, stow, swot, taos, tods, toes, togs, toms, tons, tops, tors, tosh, toss, tost, tots, tows, toys, twos, wost, wots. | |
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