Look up: service

1. service
   (networking, programming) Work performed (or offered) by a server. This may mean simply serving simple requests for data to be sent or stored (as with file servers, gopher or http servers, e-mail servers, finger servers, SQL servers, etc.); or it may be more complex work, such as that of irc server...
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2. SERVICE
   an API that allows for an agent to accomplish specific types of tasks. Usually there is security associated with access to specific classes of agent services. Hosting is simply a specific type of service. Agents can offer services to local or remote agents as well.
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3. Service
   A server process started and controlled by the Windows operating system, details ...
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4. service
   [n] - Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958) 2. [n] - a company or agency that performs a public service 3. [n] - tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table 4. [n] - an act of help or ...
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5. Service
   In data broadcasting this defines a single service data channel for an IP including address, continuity, repeats, etc.
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6. service
   1)in network architecture, the capabilities that a layer provides to the adjacent layer closer to the end user; 2)a capability of the (N)-layer and the layers beneath it, which is provided to (N + 1)-entities at the boundary between the (N)-layer and the (N + 1)-layer Category: Automation (includ...
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7. Service
   Delivery by post, or in person, of the claim form, or other court documents
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8. Service
   Serv'ice noun , or Serv'ice [ Properly, the tree which bears serve , Middle English serves , plural, service berries, Anglo-Saxon syrfe service tree; akin to Latin sorbus .] (Botany) A name given to several tree...
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9. Service
   Serv'ice noun [ Middle English servise , Old French servise , service , French service , from Latin servitium . See Serve .] 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor...
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10. service
    <botany> A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. Torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. ... <botan...
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11. service
    table service noun tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
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12. service
    noun an act of help or assistance; `he did them a service`
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13. Service
    Robert William Service noun Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)
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14. service
    service of process noun the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone; `he accepted service of the subpoena`
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15. service
    divine service noun the act of public worship following prescribed rules; `the Sunday service`
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16. service
    verb mate with; `male animals serve the females for breeding purposes`
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17. service
    (ser´vis) the performance of work for others or the performance of an action for the benefit of others. ancillary services tasks provided by hospital employees that are not directly related to health care, such as housekeeping and security.
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18. Service
    • Alt. of Service • (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another`s command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. • (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either...
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19. service
    (from the article `consumption`) ...Durable goods are generally defined as those whose expected lifetime is greater than three years, and spending on durable goods is much more ...
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20. service
    service 1. Word done by someone for another; such as, a job, a duty, a punishment, or a favor. 2. A system or operation by which people are provided with something they need, e.g., public transportation, or the organization that runs such a system.
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21. Service
    1. A product that is not embodied in a physical good and that typically effects some change in another product, person, or institution. Contrasts with good. Trade in services is the subject of the GATS. 2. To make the scheduled payments on a debt, usually including both interest and amounts towards repayment of the principal. See debt service.
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22. Service
    Function or task that has value.
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23. service
    a set of functions offered to a user by an organization
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24. Service
    The being employed to serve another. In cases of seduction, the gist of the action is not injury which the seducer has inflicted on the parent by destroying his peace of mind, and the reputation of his child, but for the consequent inability to perform those services for which she was accountable to...
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25. Service
    (n) Service is the work done by another person whether as a servant or as a contractor, by virtue of his skill, expertise etc., which has been quantified in monetary terms for paying compensation.
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