(used in digital communications) member (of the) opposite sex. Also mos
Electronics. metal oxide semiconductor.
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The microprocessor Myny and his colleagues built is the iconic MOS 6502.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
After some indecision around what technology to focus on, the three men settled on a new version of MOS — metal oxide semiconductor — technology called silicon-gate MOS.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Crispy and grainy, rice burgers have been on the menu at MOS Burger, a fast-food chain in Japan, since the 1980s.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2022
So Peddle moved the project to MOS Technology, a rival chipmaker near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, taking seven other Motorola engineers with him.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2019
MOS: It is a confidence that well becomes Your piety; and form'd, no doubt, it is From your own simple innocence: which makes Your wrong more monstrous, and abhorr'd.
From Volpone; Or, the Fox by Jonson, Ben
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