English Explanatory Dictionary

bare metal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.

Word forms

bare metal

Synonyms

bare hardware bare machine
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