bare metal
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Noun
- 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.
- Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.
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