About The Word Utility
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Utility
Utility Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Utility?
[n] the service provided by a utility company; "the cost of utilities never decreases"
[n] a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities" [n] the quality of being of practical use [n] (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" [n] a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation [n] (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice Synonyms | Synonyms for Utility: public utility | public-service corporation | service program | usefulness | utility program Related Terms | Find terms related to Utility: See Also | bus company | bus service | computer program | computer programme | detergence | detergency | device driver | diagnostic program | driver | electric company | electrical plant | electrical system | facility | function | gas company | gas service | heat | heating | heating plant | heating system | helpfulness | input program | installation | instrumentality | light company | marginal utility | output program | phone company | phone service | plumbing | plumbing system | power company | power service | practicability | practicableness | practicality | program | programme | purpose | quality | role | service | service | service routine | serviceability | serviceableness | sort program | sorting program | system of measurement | telephone company | telephone service | trace program | usableness | use | utility routine | water company | waterworks Utility In Webster's Dictionary \U*til"i*ty\, n. [OE. utilite, F. utilit['e], L.
utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See {Utile}.]
1. The quality or state of being useful; usefulness;
production of good; profitableness to some valuable end;
as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the
sciences; the utility of medicines.
The utility of the enterprises was, however, so
great and obvious that all opposition proved
useless. --Macaulay.
2. (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants;
intrinsic value. See Note under {Value}, 2.
Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in
political economy should be called by that name and
no other. --F. A.
Walker.
3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the
greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. --J.
S. Mill.
Syn: Usefulness; advantageous; benefit; profit; avail;
service.
Usage: {Utility}, {Usefulness}. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon
prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used
chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is
employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus,
we speak of the utility of an invention, and the
usefulness of the thing invented; of the utility of an
institution, and the usefulness of an individual. So
beauty and utility (not usefulness) are brought into
comparison. Still, the words are often used
interchangeably.
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