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BOSS

See OSS.


boss1 Informal
Chiefly US a professional politician who controls a party machine or political organization, often using devious or illegal methods

boss2
1. Biology any of various protuberances or swellings in plants and animals
2. 
a. an area of increased thickness, usually cylindrical, that strengthens or provides room for a locating device on a shaft, hub of a wheel, etc
b. a similar projection around a hole in a casting or fabricated component
3. an exposed rounded mass of igneous or metamorphic rock, esp the uppermost part of an underlying batholith

BOSS - Bridgport Operating System Software. A derivative of the ISO 1054 numerical machine control language for milling, etc.


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