noun
Metal Oxide Semiconductor; MOS
Technical term in computing and electronics; often used in compound terms such as MOSトランジスタ or MOS集積回路.
金属酸化膜半導体は、集積回路の基本素子として広く使われている。
Metal Oxide Semiconductors are widely used as fundamental elements in integrated circuits.
MOS is the common abbreviation, often used in compound terms like MOSトランジスタ, while 金属酸化膜半導体 is the full formal term.
Compound of 金属 (metal), 酸化膜 (oxide film), and 半導体 (semiconductor), directly translating the English term 'Metal Oxide Semiconductor'.