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Unix

Syllabification: (U·nix)
Pronunciation: /ˈyo͞oniks/

(also UNIX)
Definition of Unix

noun

Computing, trademark
  • a widely used multiuser operating system.

Origin:

1970s: from uni- 'one' + a respelling of -ics, on the pattern of an earlier less compact system called Multics

Unix in other Oxford dictionaries

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