VMS

"VMS" is a common misspelling or typo for: vamp, vase, vast, vest, vim, visa, vise.

Specialty Definition: VMS

Domain	Definition
Computing	VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore. Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist; though true, this makes VMS fans furious. One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness -- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious. It's chock-full of hacks And runs on a VAX And makes my poor stomach all squeamious. --- The Great Quux See also VAX, {TOPS-10, {TOPS-20, {Unix, runic. Source: Jargon File.
Census	(Virtual Memory System) A multi-user, multi-tasking, virtual memory operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation which runs on its VAX line of computers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: VMS

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
VMS	English	Variable message signing	N/A
VMS	German	Vanillinmandelsäure	Chemistry, Medicine
VMS	Greek	υπηρεσία φωνομηνυμάτων	Post & Telecom
VMS	Italian	Pannello a messaggio variabile	Abbreviation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: VMS

Specialty definitions using "VMS": C shell, cextract ♦ DATATRIEVE, Decus cpp, DLM, DRECNET ♦ Elvis, EXE ♦ filename extension ♦ GDB, GNU assembler, gzip ♦ holy wars, Hytelnet ♦ Little Smalltalk ♦ MicroGnuEmacs, MPL II ♦ PKUNZIP, Prisoner of Bill ♦ Scheme84, SCM, SETL2, S-Lang, SMG ♦ TLAs, Tool Command Language, TOPS-10 ♦ UIS, Uniface ♦ VAX/VMS ♦ Windows NT 3.1. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VMS

Domain	Title
Books	Open Vms Performance Management (reference) The Open Vms User's Guide (reference) Unix for Vms Users (Digital Press Vax Users Series) (reference) Vms for Alpha Platforms: Internals and Data Structures/Preliminary Edition (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Vms 2.0 Win/sol Unrestricted Inc Vpnm Cspm Hids 3des Sw (reference) MINOR RELEASE UPDATE FOR VMS (reference) VMS 2.1 WIN/SOL UNRESTRICTED (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: VMS

"VMS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.86% of the time. "VMS" is used about 350 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 (proper)	98.86%	346	15,378
Noun (plural)	1.14%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	350	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: VMS

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "VMS": vms-based, Vms-on-unix.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VMS

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
vms	330	cons pro vms	3
open vms	31	command copy vms	3
vms security management	29	vms server	3
client netbackup v3.2 veritas vms	17	emulator vms	2
monitoring service video vms	16	vacature vms	2
vax vms	11	command open vms	2
vms operating system	10	free vms ware	2
support uk vms	9	system vms	2
command vms	7	alberta job vms	2
open source vms	7	suck vms	2
vms support	6	rock vms	2
vms job	5	outils vms	2
vms training	5	commandes de systeme vms	2
vms inc	4	elit vms	2
builder vms	3	job open vms	2
digital vms	3	rule vms	2
cours vms	3	license pak vms	2
operativo sistema vms	3	vms software	2
		keytrade vms	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: VMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "m-s-v"
	+1 letter: vims.
	+2 letters: mavis, moves, vamps.
	+3 letters: civism, favism, mauves, mavens, mavies, mavins, mikvos, moshav, movers, movies, vamose, venoms, verism, vermes, vermis, vomers, vomits, vrooms.
	+4 letters: amusive, atavism, civisms, fauvism, favisms, humvees, improvs, maglevs, marvels, massive, mavises, mayvins, mikvahs, mikvehs, misaver, misgave, misgive, mislive, mismove, missive, mitsvah, motives, removes, revamps, samovar, vacuums, vamoose, vamosed, vamoses, vampers, vampish, varooms, vellums, verismo, verisms, victims, volumes, vomitos, vomitus, zemstva, zemstvo.
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