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  • 11Utility (disambiguation) — Utility is a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics and game theory.Utility may also refer to: * Public utility, an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service, or the services… …

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  • 12Utility location — Utility locator in use. Perry, OK, 2011 Utility location is the process of identifying and labeling public utility mains which are underground. These mains may include lines for telephones, electricity distribution, natural gas, cable television …

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  • 13Utility software — (also known as service program , service routine , tool , or utility routine ) is a type of computer software. It is specifically designed to help manage and tune the computer hardware, operating system or application software, and perform a… …

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  • 14Utility — U*til i*ty, n. [OE. utilite, F. utilit[ e], L. utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See {Utile}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon… …

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  • 15Utility furniture — refers to furniture produced in the United Kingdom during and just after during World War II, under a Government scheme which was designed to cope with shortages of raw materials and rationing of consumption. Introduced in 1942, the Utility… …

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  • 16utility — [yo͞o til′ə tē] n. pl. utilities [ME utilite < OFr utilité < L utilitas < utilis, UTILE] 1. the quality or property of being useful; usefulness 2. something useful 3. a) something useful to the public, esp. the service of electric power …

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  • 17service — ser·vice 1 n 1: the act of delivering to or informing someone of a writ, summons, or other notice as prescribed by law after service of process see also notice by publication at notice, s …

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  • 18service — [n1] aid, help account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, ministration, office,… …

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  • 19utility — [n] serviceableness account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance,… …

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  • 20Service-oriented Computing — (SOC) umfasst verschiedene Techniken und Konzepte zur Erstellung von modularen Software Lösungen auf Basis von Software Services. Eine wesentliche Grundlage dieser Konzepte stellen Serviceorientierte Architekturen (SOA) dar. SOC ist umfassender… …

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