bare metal (English, noun)
expansion: bare metal (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A runtime environment where little to no abstraction is available: usually employing a low-level programming language, without access to any operating system facilities, and interfacing hardware directly.
tags: uncountable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
tags: uncountable
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.
tags: uncountable
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