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Unixification

Unixification noun: adaptation to the norms or standards of the Unix operating system.

Noun

Unixification (uncountable)

  1. Adaptation to the norms or standards of the Unix operating system.
    • Unixification of Windows means maximization of the usage of command line tools and scripting.2008, Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov, “GNU not Unix: Unixification of Windows as an alternative to Linux”, in softpanorama.org (Bulletin Board Archive)

Origin of Unixification

Unix + -ification

Questions about Unixification

What does Unixification mean?
Unixification means adaptation to the norms or standards of the Unix operating system.
What part of speech is Unixification?
Unixification is a noun.

Words near Unixification in the dictionary

  1. Unix weenie
  2. Unix weenies
  3. unix-like
  4. Unixen
  5. unixes
  6. Unixification
  7. Unixish
  8. Unixism
  9. Unixisms
  10. Unixlike
  11. Unixoid

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