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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
utility
adj 1: used of beef; usable but inferior [syn: utility(a),
utility-grade]
2: capable of substituting in any of several positions on a
team; "a utility infielder" [syn: utility(a),
substitute(a)]
n 1: a company that performs a public service; subject to
government regulation [syn: utility, public utility,
public utility company, public-service corporation]
2: the quality of being of practical use [syn: utility,
usefulness] [ant: inutility, unusefulness,
uselessness]
3: the service (electric power or water or transportation)
provided by a public utility; "the cost of utilities never
decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
4: (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any
situation involving choice
5: (computer science) a program designed for general support of
the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides
utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"
[syn: utility program, utility, service program]
6: a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment
connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a
service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage
disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Utility \U*til"i*ty\, n. [OE. utilite, F. utilit['e], L.
utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See Utile.]
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1. The quality or state of being useful; usefulness;
production of good; profitableness to some valuable end;
as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the
sciences; the utility of medicines.
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The utility of the enterprises was, however, so
great and obvious that all opposition proved
useless. --Macaulay.
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2. (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants;
intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
[1913 Webster]
Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in
political economy should be called by that name and
no other. --F. A.
Walker.
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3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the
greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. --J.
S. Mill.
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Syn: Usefulness; advantageous; benefit; profit; avail;
service.
Usage: Utility, Usefulness. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon
prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used
chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is
employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus,
we speak of the utility of an invention, and the
usefulness of the thing invented; of the utility of an
institution, and the usefulness of an individual. So
beauty and utility (not usefulness) are brought into
comparison. Still, the words are often used
interchangeably.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
utility software
utility
utility program
(Or utility program, tool) Any software that performs
some specific task that is secondary to the main purpose of
using the computer (the latter would be called application
programs) but is not essential to the operation of the
computer (system software).
Many utilities could be considered as part of the system
software, which can in turn be considered part of the
operating system.
The following are some broad categories of utility software,
specific types and examples.
* Disks
disk formatter: FDISK, format
defragmenter
disk checker: fsck
disk cleaner
system profiler
backup
file system compression
* Files and directories
list directory: ls, dir
copy, move, remove: cp, mv, rm, xcopy
archive: tar
compression: zip
format conversion: atob
comparison: diff
sort: sort
* Security
authentication: login
antivirus software: avast, Norton Antivirus
firewall: Zone Alarm, Windows firewall
encryption: gpg)
* Editors for general-purpose formats (as opposed to specific
formats like a word processing document)
text editor: Emacs
binary editor, hex editor
* Communications
mail transfer agent: sendmail
e-mail notification: biff
file transfer: ftp, rcp, Firefox
file synchronisation: unison, briefcase
chat: Gaim, cu
directory services: bind, nslookup, whois
network diagnosis: ping, traceroute
remote access: rlogin, ssh
* Software development
compiler: gcc
build: make, ant
codewalker
preprocessor: cpp
debugger: adb, gdb
installation: apt-get, msiexec, patch
compiler compiler: yacc
* Hardware
device configuration: PCU, devman, stty
(2007-02-02)
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Thesaurus Results for utility:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Aktiengesellschaft, account, advantage, advantageousness, aktiebolag, alternate, alternative, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, availability, backup, beneficialness, body corporate, business, business establishment, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, convenience, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, counterfeit, diversified corporation, drive, dummy, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, engine, enginery, enterprise, equivalent, ersatz, facility, fake, favorableness, firm, fitness, fixture, functionality, helpfulness, holding company, house, imitation, industry, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, machine, machinery, makeshift, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mock, motive power, motor, operability, operating company, partnership, phony, pinch, plunderbund, pool, power plant, power source, practicability, practical utility, practicality, profitability, provisional, proxy, public utility, relevance, reserve, secondary, service, serviceability, spare, stock company, stopgap, substitute, syndicate, temporary, tentative, token, trade association, trust, usability, use, usefulness, utilizability, vicarious |
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