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Meanings and definitions for BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? What does BIOS mean?
- BIOS (pronounced: , BY-oss; an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS or PC BIOS) is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup), and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs.
- Bios (album), the third album by Costa Rican music group Gandhi
- Bios (novel), a 1999 science fiction novel by Robert Charles Wilson
- Bios (film), an upcoming American science fiction drama film
- BIOS, the society journal of the Tri Beta society
- BIOS Faction, a fictional group in the Allegiance video game
- BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), a de facto standard firmware interface of IBM PC compatible computers
AMI BIOS, manufactured by American Megatrends
- Award BIOS, manufactured by Award Software
- BIOS (CP/M), the BIOS in the CP/M family of operating systems
- Phoenix BIOS, manufactured by Phoenix Technologies
- DOS-BIOS, the equivalent of the CP/M component in some DOS operating systems, IBMBIO.COM in PC DOS
IO.SYS, in MS-DOS
- NetBIOS
- Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
- Biological Innovation for Open Society
- BIOS-3, a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom
- British Institute of Organ Studies
- Bios (philosophy), a philosophical concept of Giorgio Agamben
- Biographies, or bios
- bio(4), a pseudo-device driver in RAID controller management interface in OpenBSD and NetBSD
- Block I/O, a concept in computer data storage
- Bio (Australian TV channel)
- The Biography Channel (UK and Ireland)
- Bio (graffiti artist) Wilfredo Feliciano (born 1966)
- Bio (album), a Chuck Berry album released in 1973
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- Biographers International Organization
- Biotechnology Innovation Organization
- Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
- Bio, Azerbaijan, village in Astara Rayon
- Bio, Lot, commune in France
- Bilbao Airport, Spain, IATA airport code
- Biography (abbreviation)
- British Informatics Olympiad
- Bio, prefix and abbreviation of biology
- Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, the Anti-organized Crime Branch of the Italian Carabinieri
- Reparti i Operacioneve Speciale, a former Albanian special forces unit
- IL ROS, Norwegian football team
- Scottish Gaelic spelling of the name Ross
- Baron de Ros
- Arno Ros (born 1942), German philosopher
- Carmen Ros Nortes (born 1953), Catholic nun and Vatican official
- Edmundo Ros (1910–2011), Trinidadian-British musician
- Enrique Ros (1924 – 2013), Cuban-American businessman and activist
- Fran Roš (1898–1976), Slovene writer
- Giuseppe Ros (born 1942), Italian boxer
- Iñigo Ros (born 1982), Spanish footballer
- Isidro Ros Ríos (born 1995), Spanish footballer
- Jaime Ros, (born 1952), Spanish alpine skier
- Javier Ros (born 1990), Spanish footballer
- José Ros García (1920–2001), Spanish poet
- Lázaro Ros (1925–2005), Cuban singer
- Ramón Ros (born 1981), Spanish footballer
- Richard Ros (born 1429), English poet
- Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860–1939), Irish writer
- Mohd Remezey Che Ros (born 1982), Malaysian footballer
- Uilleam Ros, Scottish Gaelic poet
- Ros Atkins, British journalist
- Ros Bates (born 1962), Australian politician
- Ros Childs (born 1967), British journalist
- Ros Drinkwater (born 1944), Scottish actress
- Ros Evans (born 1960), British athlete
- Ros Kelly (born 1948), Australian politician
- Ros Kember (born 1985), New Zealand cricketer
- Ros Pesman (born 1938), Australian historian
- Ros Saboeut (c. 1942–2014), Cambodian musician
- Ros Serey Sothea (1948–1977), Cambodian singer
- Ros Spence (born 1970), Australian politician
- Ros Myers, fictional character
- Lake Roś, Poland
- Republic of Singapore, a country in South-East Asia
- Reserve Officer School, a conscript training facility in Finland
- Ros', Belarus, a town in Grodno Region, Belarus
- Rosario - Islas Malvinas International Airport, Argentina
- Ros (river), Ukraine
- Reactive oxygen species, chemically reactive molecules containing oxygen
- ROS1, receptor tyrosine kinase
- ROS, a weak signal sound card mode for Amateur Radio
- Rod outer segment, the light sensitive part of a in the retina of the eye
- Robot Operating System, an open source robotics platform by Willow Garage and Stanford AI Labs
- ROM Operating System, a ROMed version of Digital Research's DR DOS
- Russian Orbital Segment, components of the International Space Station
- Ros (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
- Ros (vehicles), a Greek light truck manufacturer
- Reaper of Souls, an expansion to the game Diablo 3
- Return on sales, an accounting ratio that detects operational efficiency
- Revenue On-Line Service, a tax returns system used in Ireland
- Review of systems, medical
- Da Ros, surname
- Rosas (surname), of which Ros is a spelling variation
- Basic Input
- Basic Input/Output System
- Bioregional On-line Information Service
- Output System
- Subroutines
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