disk operating system

1. 1.

   an operating system that is on a disk

   SynonymsDOS

   Broaderoperating system

   NarrowerMS-DOS

Questions about disk operating system

What does disk operating system mean?

disk operating system means "an operating system that is on a disk".

What is another word for disk operating system?

Close synonyms include DOS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disk operating system a common word?

disk operating system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.