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Definition of Utility
1. Noun. A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.
Generic synonyms: Service
Specialized synonyms: Phone Company, Phone Service, Telco, Telephone Company, Telephone Service, Electric Company, Light Company, Power Company, Power Service, Water Company, Waterworks, Gas Company, Gas Service, Bus Company, Bus Service
2. Adjective. Used of beef; usable but inferior.
3. Noun. The quality of being of practical use.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Detergence, Detergency, Function, Purpose, Role, Use, Helpfulness, Use, Serviceability, Serviceableness, Usability, Usableness, Useableness, Instrumentality, Practicality, Practicability, Practicableness
Attributes: Useful, Utile, Useless
Derivative terms: Useful, Utile, Utilise, Utilitarian, Utilitarian, Utilize
Antonyms: Uselessness, Inutility
4. Adjective. Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team. "A utility infielder"
5. Noun. The service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility. "All the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
6. Noun. (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.
Generic synonyms: Metric, System Of Measurement
Specialized synonyms: Marginal Utility
7. Noun. (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"
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Generic synonyms: Computer Program, Computer Programme, Program, Programme
Specialized synonyms: Device Driver, Driver, Diagnostic Program, Input Program, Output Program, Sort Program, Sorting Program, Trace Program
Terms within: Service Routine, Utility Routine
8. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Facility, Installation
Definition of Utility
1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Utility
1. the quality of being useful [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Utility
1. 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. Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value. "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. Synonym: Usefulness, advantageous, benefit, profit, avail, service. 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. Origin: OE. Utilite, F. Utilite, L. Utilitas, fr. Utilis useful. See Utile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Utility
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