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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CMOS |
| Specialty definitions using "CMOS": BiCMOS ♦ CMOS logic, collateralized mortgage obligation, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor logic, CONFIG.SYS, custom-design technologies ♦ Gunning Transceiver Logic ♦ OS/390 ♦ RCA 1802 ♦ SA-110, scaled CMOS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CMOS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (CMOS, complementary MOS). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CMOS | Danish | Complementær MOS | Electrical Engineering |
CMOS | English | Carboxy-methyl-oxy-succinate | Chemistry |
CMOS | Finnish | Komplementaarinen metallioksidipuolijohde | Electrical Engineering |
CMOS | German | Ergänzendes MOS | Electrical Engineering |
CMOS | Italian | MOS complementare | Electrical Engineering |
CMOS | Spanish | MOS complementario | Electrical Engineering |
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| "CMOS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.25% of the time. "CMOS" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 56.25% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (plural) | 43.75% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CMOS": CMOS circuit ♦ CMOS crosspoint ♦ CMOS logic ♦ CMOS technology ♦ scaled CMOS. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CMOS": cmos-backing, cmos-erasable. | |
Ending with "CMOS": bi-cmos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CMOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | complementær MOS (complementary MOS), CMOS (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | CMOS (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | CMOS (complementary MOS), komplementaarinen metallioksidipuolijohde (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Société canadienne de météorologie et d'océanographie, SCMO. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | CMOS (complementary MOS), ergänzendes MOS (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | CMOS,Συμπληρωματικός ημιαγωγός μεταλλικού οξειδίου (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | CMOS (complementary MOS), MOS complementare (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "모스. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oscmay CMOS (complementary MOS). (various references) CMOS (complementary MOS), MOS complementario (complementary MOS). (various references) CMOS-teknik (complementary MOS), komplementär MOS (complementary MOS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mocs. | |
| Words within the letters "c-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cos, moc, mos, oms, som. | |
-2 letters: mo, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: comas, combs, comes, comps, corms, mocks, osmic, schmo, smock. | |
+2 letters: cameos, campos, caroms, celoms, chemos, chomps, clomps, combes, combos, comers, comets, comics, commas, comose, comous, compos, compts, comtes, coombs, cosmic, cosmos, custom, cymols, cymose, cymous, locums, machos, macons, macros, mascon, mascot, micros, mochas, mosaic, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros, osmics, schmoe, schmos, sitcom, smocks, smooch, socman, socmen, syncom. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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