OPEN

Open

For most file systems, a program initializes access to a file in a filesystem using the open system call. This allocates resources associated to the file, and returns a handle that the process will use to refer to that file. In some cases the open is performed by the first access.

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Open....

Open.... was the trading name of Open Interactive Limited, which was a subsidiary of British Interactive Broadcasting. British Interactive Broadcasting was in turn owned by a consortium consisting of companies involving British Telecom, Matsushita and BSkyB. Launching a few months late in August 1999, it only survived until it was closed by BSkyB in October 2001, losing 116 million. The service was awarded a Design Council Millennium Product Award.

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OPEN

OPEN is an Indian weekly English language magazine featuring current affairs. It was launched on 2 April 2009 in 12 Indian cities.

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open

Noun

  1. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
  2. a wire that is broken midway.
    The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
  3. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
    I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
    Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
  4. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
    We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.

Verb

  1. To make something accessible or removing an obstacle to something being accessible.
  2. To bring up (a topic).
  3. To make accessible to customers or clients.
  4. To start (a campaign).
  5. To become open.
  6. To begin conducting business.
  7. To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  8. To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  9. To reveal one's hand.
  10. To load into memory for viewing or editing.

Adjective

  1. Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
  2. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
    an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
  3. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
  4. Receptive.
  5. Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
  6. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
  7. Having a free variable.
  8. Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of <math>X</math>, that defines a topological space on <math>X</math>.
  9. In current use; mapped to part of memory.
  10. Not fulfilled.
  11. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
    an open question
    to keep an offer or opportunity open
  12. Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
  13. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
    an open winter
  14. Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
  15. Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.


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