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noun
  1. 1

    (computing) An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.

  2. 2

    (NASA, space science) Name for a set of projects that aim to develop technology for human spaceflight in deep space exploration.