Bos

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bos \Bos\, prop. n. [L., ox, cow.] (Zool.)
     A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and
     domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns,
     and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Bos
       n : wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in
           the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini [syn: {genus Bos}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BOS
       Basic Operating System (AIX, IBM)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BOS
       Batch Operating System (OS, Honeywell)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  BOS
       
          1.  {Basic Operating System}.
       
          2.  A data management system written at {DESY} and used
          in some high energy physics programs.
       
          3.  The {Basic Object System}.
       
          (1999-01-20)