Look up: Daemon

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   daemon
   [n] - a person who is part mortal and part god
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   Daemon
   Disc And Execution Monitor - an otherwise harmless Unix program that normally works out of sight of the user - on the Internet, you'll most likely encounter it only when your e-mail is not delivered to your recipient - you'll get back your original message plus an ugly message from a 'mailer daemon'.
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   Daemon
   A process that runs all the time.
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   daemon
   To the early Greeks, a god as he appeared in his dealings with humans. In classical times the word came to mean a lesser deity, inferior to the Olympians, but taking a personal interest in...
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   daemon
   (operating system) /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning, later rationalised as the acronym 'Disk And Execution MONitor') A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a progr...
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   daemon
   a background application or process that performs specific tasks Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   daemon
   noun a person who is part mortal and part god
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   Daemon
   The term `Daemon`, `dæmon`, or `demon` has several meanings: `For more possible meanings see` Demon (disambiguation) and Daimon (alternate spelling) *Daemon (mythology) - `See also: Agathodaemon, Cacodemon, Demon` *Daemon (computer software), a background process *Daemon (novel), a novel by Leinad Zeraus; *Dæmon (His Dark Materials) in the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels `His Dark Materials` *Daemon (Dungeons & Dragons) is the original name f...
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   Daemon
   • (a.) Alt. of Daemonic
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    daemon
    daemon ' … a daemon and a demon are not one and the same thing. And it is daemon, in its Platonic sense of a being intermediary between gods and men — not demon with its Judaeo-Christian import of an unclean, evil, or malignant spirit that we must keep in mind.' —Webster's New International Dictionary 2nd Ed., by J.L. Lowes; Springfield, Massachusetts...
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