English > utility: 8 senses > noun 2, attribute| Meaning | The quality of being of practical use. |
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| Synonym | usefulness |
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| Attributes | useful, utile | Of use or service |
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| useless | Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully |
| Narrower | detergency, detergence | detergent quality |
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| function, purpose, role, use | What something is used for |
| helpfulness | The property of providing useful assistance |
| instrumentality | The quality of being instrumental for some purpose |
| practicability, practicableness | The quality of being usable |
| practicality | concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities |
| serviceability, serviceableness, usableness, useableness, usability | The quality of being able to provide good service |
| use | A particular service |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | inutility, uselessness, unusefulness | The quality of having no practical use |
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| Spanish | efectividad, provecho, utilidad, útil |
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| Catalan | profit, utilitat |
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| Adjectives | utile | being of use or service |
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| utilitarian | having a useful function |
| utilitarian | having utility often to the exclusion of values |
| Verbs | utilize, utilise | put into service |
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English > utility: 8 senses > noun 5, communication| Meaning | (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer. |
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| Example | "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" |
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| Synonyms | utility program, service program |
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| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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| Parts | utility routine, service routine | A routine that can be used as needed |
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| Narrower | diagnostic program | A program that recognizes and explains faults in the equipment or mistakes in a computer program |
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| driver, device driver | (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device |
| input program | A utility program that organizes the input to a computer |
| output program | A utility program that organizes the output / output of a computer |
| sort program, sorting program | A utility program that sorts data items |
| trace program | A utility program that exhibits the sequence / sequence and results of executing the instructions in another program |
| Broader | program, programme, computer program, computer programme | (computer science) a sequence / sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute |
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| Spanish | programa de servicio, utilidad |
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| Catalan | utilitat |
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