system call
Computing
noun
A request by a program for a service provided by the operating system.
Origin
1970s.
- oligophyllous
- oligopod
- oligopolist
- oligopolistic
- oligopoly
- oligopsonist
- oligopsonistic
- oligopsony
- oligosaccharide
- oligosaprobe
- oligosaprobic
- oligospermia
- oligospermic
- oligospermous
- oligostemonous
- oligosyllabic
- oligotrich
- oligotroph
- oligotrophic
- oligotrophication
- oligotrophy
- oligotropic
- oligozoospermia
- oliguria
- oliguric