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tivoize

tivoize verb: (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.

Verb

tivoize (third-person singular simple present tivoizes, present participle tivoizing, simple past and past participle tivoized)

  1. (transitive) (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.

Forms of tivoize

third-person singular presenttivoizes
present participletivoizing
past participletivoized
pasttivoized

Questions about tivoize

What does tivoize mean?
Tivoize means (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.
What part of speech is tivoize?
Tivoize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tivoize?
The past tense of tivoize is tivoized.

Words near tivoize in the dictionary

  1. tivoed
  2. Tivoid
  3. TiVoing
  4. tivoisation
  5. tivoization
  6. tivoize
  7. tivoized
  8. tivoizes
  9. tivoizing
  10. Tivoli
  11. TiVos

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