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Computing | AOS 1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction that took any memory location and added 1 to it. AOS meant "Add One and do not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" stand for "do not Skip" rather than for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions: AOSE added 1 and then skipped the next instruction if the result was Equal to zero; AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Greater than 0; AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0; AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always; and so on. Just plain AOS didn't say when to skip, so it never skipped. For similar reasons, AOJ meant "Add One and do not Jump". Even more bizarre, SKIP meant "do not SKIP"! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP meant "do not JUMP"; the unconditional form was JUMPA. However, hackers never did this. By some quirk of the 10's design, the JRST (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming. 2. /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A Multics-derived operating system supported at one time by Data General. A spoof of the standard AOS system administrator's manual ("How to Load and Generate your AOS System") was created, issued a part number, and circulated as photocopy folklore; it was called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System". 3. Algebraic Operating System, in reference to those calculators which use infix instead of postfix (reverse Polish) notation. [Jargon File] (1995-11-26). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Space | Acquisition Of Signal, used in DSN operations. (references) |
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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 |
AOS | English | Acquisition of signal | N/A |
AOS | French | Notation algébrique directe | N/A |
AOS | German | Aktive optoelektronische Schutzeinrichtungen | Mechanical Engineering |
AOS | Greek | υπηρεσίες εναλλακτικού φορέα εκμετάλλευσης | Post & Telecom |
AOS | Italian | Associazione Olimpica Svizzera | N/A |
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Crosswords: AOS |
| Specialty definitions using "AOS": DG/L, DGL ♦ JRST ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AOS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (on the, to the), Portuguese Brazilian (on the, to the). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Nojo aos Cães (1970) Aos (1964) Viagem aos Seios de Duília (1964) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A subida do CDS ... : traz um amigo! que minguem figue em casa : CDS o voto certo, Portugal aos Portugueses. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | O voto certo, CDS : Portugal aos Portugueses : afinal, e esta a prosperidade que nos promenteram? : Freitas do Amaral. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 12 Dez CDS, o voto certo : Portugal aos Portugueses. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Duplica o teu voto traz um amigo : CDS, o voto certo : Portugal aos Portugueses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "AOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "AOS" is used about 13 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) | 53.85% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 46.15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AOS": bacalaos, cacaos, carabaos, chaos, curacaos, epinaos, naos, praos, tamaraos, taos. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AOS": chaoses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-s" | |
-1 letter: as, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-s" | |
+1 letter: abos, ados, also, avos, boas, goas, koas, moas, naos, oafs, oaks, oars, oast, oats, ocas, okas, osar, ossa, sago, soak, soap, soar, soda, sofa, soja, sola, soma, sora, soya, stoa, taos. | |
+2 letters: adios, aeons, agios, agons, aloes, altos, ambos, ammos, amoks, anoas, apods, arose, arson, arvos, ascot, askoi, askos, atoms, autos, aviso, avows, awols, axons, azons, basso, boars, boast, boats, bolas, boras, botas, calos, canso, capos, chaos, coals, coast, coats, cocas, codas, colas, comas, costa, dados, dagos, datos, doats, donas, dopas, dorsa, fados, fanos, faros, fatso, foals, foams, fossa, gaols, goads, goals, goats, halos, hoars, horas, hosta, hoyas, iotas, jatos, jotas, kaons, kayos, koans, kolas, lasso, loads, loafs, loams, loans, lotas, makos, manos, mason, mayos, moans, moats, molas, monas, moras, moxas, nomas, nonas, novas, oases, oasis, oasts, oaths, oaves, obias, ofays, ogams, ohias, okays, okras, ollas, omasa, opahs, opals, orals, orcas, ossia, ostia, ovals, paseo, praos, proas, psoae, psoai, psoas, ratos, roads, roams, roans, roars, roast, rotas, sabot, sagos, sajou, salol, salon, salvo, sambo, santo, sapor, sarod, saros, savor, savoy, shako, shoal, shoat, skoal, soaks, soaps, soapy, soars, soave, sodas, sofar, sofas, softa, sojas, solan, solar, somas, sonar, soras, sowar, soyas, spado, stoae, stoai, stoas, stoat, stoma, tacos, taros, toads, toast, toeas, togas, tolas, toras, woads, yogas, zoeas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4F 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004F 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354953 |
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