Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bare metal

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables
bare met-al
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Synonyms

bare hardware bare machine

Questions

What does bare metal mean?
A runtime environment where little to no abstraction is available: usually employing a low-level programming language, without access to any operating system facilities, and interfacing hardware directly.

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