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BIOS

[ bahy-ohs ]

noun

, Computers.
  1. computer firmware that directs many basic functions of the operating system, as booting and keyboard control.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of BIOS1

First recorded in 1975–80; abbreviation of B(asic) I(nput)/O(utput) S(ystem)
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Example Sentences

As the driver bios appeared on the jumbo screen, I flashed a toothy grin after noticing that two of them were women.

Bios of Led Zeppelin have noted this, and Page has never denied it.

Labels will give you artist bios—with a quick copy and paste, you could provide that info to us, too!

In the memorial sits a three-ring-binder which contains the bios of the women who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Independent has entertaining one-sentence bios for all of them.

Should he run one further great chance with Bios,—and if so, by whose assistance?

It was the same Bios whose nature and drift and ways and methods and aspects engaged them all.

This Bios had hardly been twelve months on the boards as yet!

"Bios be d––––," said Sexty, uttering a string of heavy imprecations.

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