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ios

ios is the plural of io.

Meaning of io

Noun

io (plural ios)

  1. A type of moth, the io moth.
    • These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious

See all 5 meanings of io

Noun capitalized: IOs

IOs

  1. (plural) plural of IO

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ios

Ios

  1. An island of the Cyclades, Greece.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: iOS

iOS

  1. A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.
    • Not all of my vibecoding experiments have been successful. I've been struggling for weeks to build an "inbox autopilot" tool capable of responding to my emails automatically, in my writing style. I've encountered roadblocks when trying to integrate A.I. work flows into apps like Google Photos and...2025 February 27, “Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar...

Origin of ios

From i- + OS. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

Questions about ios

What does ios mean?
Ios means an island of the Cyclades, Greece.
What is ios the plural of?
Ios is the plural of io.
What part of speech is ios?
Ios can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ios in the dictionary

  1. iora
  2. ioras
  3. Iordăcheanu
  4. IORs
  5. Iorworth
  6. ios
  7. IOSAPIC
  8. Iosco County
  9. Iosefin
  10. Ioshima
  11. iOSification

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ios (page history and authors); IOs (page history and authors); Ios (page history and authors); iOS (page history and authors); io (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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