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English
Adjective
NOS (not comparable)
- (medical diagnosis) Initialism of not otherwise specified.
Usage notes
- (Not Otherwise Specified): used as the last qualifier in the definition of a class or category, as a punctuation period that restricts further narrowing of that specification, such as in the UN number for the transportation of dangerous goods; e.g., UN1956 is defined as "Compressed Gas, N.O.S."; whether it is flammable or inert is not specified, so it could be either.
Noun
NOS (countable and uncountable, plural NOSes)
- Initialism of Near-Online Storage.
- Initialism of Network Operating System.
- Initialism of new old stock.
- Acronym of nitrous oxide system.
- Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
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