Bare metal

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. uncountable

    "Real programmers don't write applications programs; they program right down to the bare metal. Applications programming is for wimps who can't do systems programming."

  2. 2
    Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised. uncountable

    "A hypervisor is a thin, guest OS—independent Virtualization layer that is loaded onto bare metal, which interacts with the hardware directly and creates virtual machines in which operating systems, either enlightened or not, can run."

  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal. uncountable

    "bare-metal stent"

Synonyms

All synonyms
uncoated metaluntreated metal

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"Real programmers don't write applications programs; they program right down to the bare metal. Applications programming is for wimps who can't do systems programming."

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