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# DOS

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1. [disk operating system]? -- from the time when disk drives were usually optional rather than default features of operating systems; a disk-based or disk-aware OS was distinctive, and the acronym DOS as part of an OS name indicated its superiority; in popular usage, short for Microsoft's MS-DOS?. Also name of an operating system for the IBM [System 370]? and [System 390]? series of mainframes, in full DOS/VSE (Disk Operating System/Virtual? Storage Extended).

2. [denial of service]? -- often DoS to distinguish it from DOS; in the context of computer networking, the situation where a system is attacked in such a manner that "normal" network communication is blocked by excessive traffic, or the system itself is rendered nonfunctional due to overload or caused to crash; distinct from a compromised system, which may continue to operate but is put to subversive use or exposed to illicit monitoring

3. In condensed matter physics a common acronym for density of states. The density of states, N(E), for electronic energy levels in a solid is defined as follows: N(E)dE is the number of allowed energy levels per unit volume of the solid, in the energy range E to E+dE.

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