A bridge post on a spaceship, responsible for making certain that the ship is functioning properly despite the strains of travel, and that the captain is aware that all is -- or is not -- well May be responsible for armaments if the ship possesses such things, though if it possesses many, they may be delegated to armscomp
Oxygen Purge System The upper portion of an astronaut's space suit backpack containing emergency oxygen tanks and plumbing necessary to service the backpack between uses
Acronym for operations per second Ops is used as a rating of the speed of computer systems and components In this report ops is generally taken to mean the usual integer or floating point operations depending on what functional units are included in a particular system configuration
On-base plus slugging (OBP+SLG) A fairly accurate and easily calculated index of a player's rate of offensive production See also OTS This statistic combines the two basic offensive skills: getting on base (OBP) and advancing runners (SLG) OPS may also be used for teams An adjustment which makes OPS more accurate is figuring it as (1 2*OBP+SLG), which compensates for the fact that SLG has a wider range than OBP (i e , a 500 SLG is common, but only about a half dozen players have ever had 500 OBP's)
Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a database server option allowing multiple instances to mount a singe database from more than one node in a cluster environment
Short for "Operations Officer " This is a control station on the bridge, to the port side rear of the captain's chair Ops is responsible for coordinating the activities of the ship's many departments
(Roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of Saturn; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor