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device drivers

device drivers is the plural of device driver.

Meaning of device driver

Noun

device driver (plural device drivers)

  1. Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.
    • The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager[…]1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System, page 2064

Questions about device drivers

What is device drivers the plural of?
Device drivers is the plural of device driver.

Words near device drivers in the dictionary

  1. deviatory
  2. devic
  3. device
  4. device addiction
  5. device driver
  6. device drivers
  7. device file
  8. device files
  9. device tree
  10. device under test
  11. deviceful

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