stand-alone
[stand-uh-lohn]Computers.
- self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
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- a device or program with these characteristics.
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Origin of stand-alone
First recorded in 1965–70
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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War, to be published July 1, is her first standalone novel.
They are now attracting a number of students who just go for the standalone degree.
The Google spokesperson declined to comment on whether Google has any plans to create a standalone Maps app for iOS.
It's a statement from The Huffington Post that being a standalone media product, no matter how mighty, can be a lonely place.
We were going to do that and we left one studio and went to another to do kind of standalone films.
stand-alone
- computing (of a device or system) capable of operating independently of any other device or system
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Word Origin and History for standalone
stand-alone
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