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DOS DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems. DOS may also refer to: Computing * Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel * Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...
is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems. DOS may also refer to:


Computing

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Data over signalling Data over signalling (sometimes data over signaling) or DoS, is a technique in telecommunications in which primary data is sent over a signalling channel instead of the subscriber's bearer channel. Background Data over signalling was designed ...
(DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel *
Denial-of-service attack In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host conn ...
(DoS), an attack on a communications network * Disk operating system **
List of disk operating systems This is a list of disk operating systems in which the acronym ''DOS'' is used to form their names. Many of these are simply referred to as "DOS" within their respective communities. MS-DOS / IBM PC DOS compatible systems * MS-DOS (since 1981), ...
, Apple DOS, Atari DOS, DOS/360, etc. *
Distributed operating system A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational nodes. They handle jobs which are serviced by multiple CPUs. Each individual node holds a ...


Music


Albums

* ''Dos'' (Altered State album) * ''Dos'' (Dos album) * ''Dos'' (Fanny Lú album) * ''Dos'' (Gerardo album) * ''Dos'' (Malo album), 1972 * ''Dos'' (Myriam Hernández album), 1989 * ''Dos'', album by
Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips (pronounced "ships") is an American experimental and psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California. History The project has released one EP and seven albums. Guitarist Ripley Johnson also plays in two side projects, inclu ...
, 2009 * ''
¡Dos! ''¡Dos!'' (stylized in all caps) is the tenth studio album by American rock band Green Day. The album was released on November 9, 2012, in Australia, November 12 in the United Kingdom and on November 13 in the United States through Reprise Re ...
'', album by Green Day


Other uses in music

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Dos (band) dos (from the Spanish word for "two") is an American rock group composed of Mike Watt and Kira Roessler, who both sing and play bass guitar. Critic Greg Prato describes their unusual instrumentation as "a haunting yet intriguing and original ...
, an American band *
DOS (concert) DOS is second solo concert by Filipino actor and singer Daniel Padilla, in served as his birthday party, and as support of his first full-length studio album, '' DJP''. Held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on April 30, 2014. The set list includes ...
, by Filipino singer Daniel Padilla


Organisations

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Democratic Opposition of Serbia The Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( sr, Демократска oпозиција Cрбије, Demokratska opozicija Srbije), commonly referred to as DOS, was a wide alliance of political parties in Serbia, intent on ousting the ruling Socialis ...
, a former political alliance * Department of Space, India *
Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund The German Olympic Sports Confederation (german: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund or DOSB) was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the ''Deutscher Sportbund'' (DSB), and the ''Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland'' (NOK) which dates ...
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Directorate of Overseas Surveys The Ordnance Survey International or Ordnance Survey Overseas Directorate its predecessors built an archive of air photography, map and survey records for the United Kingdom from 1946 to 1999. The Ordnance Survey International Collection (formerly ...
, UK 1957–1984 *Dominus Obsequious Sororium, within cult
NXIVM NXIVM () is the name commonly used to describe the personality cult of imprisoned racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. NXIVM is also the trademarked name of the defunct corporation that Raniere founded, which provided seminars and vide ...
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United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...


Places

* Dos, a village in Vidra Commune, Romania


Science

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Density of states In solid state physics and condensed matter physics, the density of states (DOS) of a system describes the number of modes per unit frequency range. The density of states is defined as D(E) = N(E)/V , where N(E)\delta E is the number of states i ...
in physics * DOS-1 etc., Russian space station designation in the
Salyut programme The ''Salyut'' programme (russian: Салют, , meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed m ...
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Dioctyl sebacate Dioctyl sebacate (also di(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate, commonly abbreviated as DOS, DEHS, and BEHS) is an organic compound which is the diester of sebacic acid and 2-ethylhexanol. It is an oily colorless liquid and is used as a plasticizer, including i ...
, an organic chemical *
Diversity oriented synthesis In chemistry a divergent synthesis is a strategy with the aim to improve the efficiency of chemical synthesis. It is often an alternative to convergent synthesis or linear synthesis. In one strategy divergent synthesis aims to generate a library ...
in chemistry


Sports

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DOS Kampen DOS Kampen (acronym of ''Door Oefening Sterk Kampen'') is a Dutch football club based in the city of Kampen, currently competing in the Eerste Klasse The Eerste Klasse ( en, First Class) started as the 1st tier of football in the Netherlands ...
, a Dutch football club *
VV DOS DHSC is a football club in the Ondiep district of Utrecht, Netherlands. The club plays in the 2022-23 Vierde Divisie. History VV DOS (1901–2004) Voetbalvereniging Door Oefening Sterk, in short VV DOS, was established in 1901. The club won ...
, a past Dutch football club now part of FC Utrecht


Other uses

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Dos (card game) Uno (; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'; stylized as UNO) is an American shedding-type card game that is played with a specially printed deck. The game's general principles put it into the crazy eights family of card games, and it is simi ...
, a variation of Uno * Dos, an Ancient Roman
dowry A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment ...
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Day of Silence Day of Silence is GLSEN's annual day of action to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students. In the United States, students take a day-lo ...
, an LGBT observance


See also

* * * Doss (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation