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Unixisms

Unixisms is the plural of Unixism.

Meaning of Unixism

Noun

Unixism (plural Unixisms)

  1. (informal) An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.
    • Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the select() function.2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32, page 35

Questions about Unixisms

What is Unixisms the plural of?
Unixisms is the plural of Unixism.

Words near Unixisms in the dictionary

  1. Unixen
  2. unixes
  3. Unixification
  4. Unixish
  5. Unixism
  6. Unixisms
  7. Unixlike
  8. Unixoid
  9. Unixoids
  10. Unixy
  11. unjabbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Unixisms (page history and authors); Unixism (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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