What Does Dock Mean?
Dock is an iconic graphical user interface (GUI) feature of the Mac OS X operating system. Dock provides a quick method for the user to launch and alternate software applications. Dock is similar to ObjectDock and RocketDock on Windows operating systems.
Techopedia Explains Dock
Dock is a feature of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep, which were Mac OS X predecessors. A separate iPhone operating system version is used with the iPhone and iPad. Dock features include:
