Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unixoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: unixoid
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.

Informal

noun

Informal

Example Sentences

"Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems."
"While this question is perfectly reasonable if the environment consists of large numbers of Microsoft Windows desktop machines and a few servers, in a Unixoid data center with lots of servers, or a Unix environment with a large number of workstations that are remotely operated using SSH, the answer to this question is obvious."
"From the perspective of erstwhile Unixoids, those are all toy operating systems, while Unix is what you use when you have real work to do […]"

Etymology

From Unix + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Unix

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more Unixoid (comparative) most Unixoid (superlative) Unixoids (plural)

Synonyms

Unixish Unix-like Unixy

Questions

What does unixoid mean?: Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
Where does unixoid come from?: From Unix + -oid.

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