utility
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /juːˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
utility
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
- 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- utility line; utility bill
- Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).
- utility room
- (state of being useful) usefulness, note#Etymology_1|note
- See also Thesaurus:utility
- French: utilité
- German: Nützlichkeit
- Italian: utilità
- Portuguese: utilidade
- Russian: поле́зность
- Spanish: utilidad
- French: utilitaire
- Italian: attrezzo, strumento
- Portuguese: utilidade
- Russian: полезный
- Spanish: conveniencia
- Russian: обслу́живающая програ́мма
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