bare metal
A runtime environment where little to no abstraction is available: usually employing a…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.
» Coated vascular stents didn't prove their superiority over bare metal vascular stents.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable)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)Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
(uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.
bare-metal stent
Examples
2 sentencesCoated vascular stents didn't prove their superiority over bare metal vascular stents.
Ziri removed the rust until he got to the bare metal surface.
Synonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable