Usually means: Primary interface for personal computing.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word desktop:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. desktop: Merriam-Webster
  2. desktop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desktop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desktop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desktop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desktop, desktop: Wordnik
  7. desktop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desktop: Wiktionary
  9. desktop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desktop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desktop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. desktop: Dictionary.com
  13. desktop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Desktop (computing), Desktop (word processor), Desktop, .desktop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. desktop: Rhymezone
  16. desktop: FreeDictionary.org
  17. desktop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. desktop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. desktop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. desktop: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. desktop: Netlingo
  3. desktop: CCI Computer
  4. Desktop: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Desktop (computing), desktop: Encyclopedia
  6. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desktop: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See desktops as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The top surface of a desk.
noun:  (computing) A desktop computer.
noun:  (computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.
noun:  (computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
noun:  (computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.
adjective:  Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
adjective:  (computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.

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