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OPEN-SOURCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does open-source mean?
• OPEN-SOURCE (adjective)
The adjective OPEN-SOURCE has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
Familiarity information: OPEN-SOURCE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Pertainym:
source code (program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution)
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