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dual-boot

adj

Etymology

From dual + boot.

  1. derived from *bʰewt-✻
  2. derived from *buttaz✻
  3. derived from *butt✻
  4. derived from bot
  5. derived from bote
  6. inherited from boote
  7. compounded as dual-boot — “dual + boot”

Definitions

  1. Having two operating systems available, such that either of them can be selected each…

    Having two operating systems available, such that either of them can be selected each time the computer is booted.

    • In either situation, a dual-boot installation uses unpartitioned free space on the current or on another hard disk as the target.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dual-boot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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