[きょうようルーチン,
kyouyou ru-chin] utility routine,
service routine [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Utility \U*til"i*ty\, n. [OE. utilite, F. utilit['e], L.
utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See {Utile}.]
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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.
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The utility of the enterprises was, however, so
great and obvious that all opposition proved
useless. --Macaulay.
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2. (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants;
intrinsic value. See Note under {Value}, 2.
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Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in
political economy should be called by that name and
no other. --F. A.
Walker.
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3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the
greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. --J.
S. Mill.
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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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
utility
adj 1: used of beef; usable but inferior [syn: {utility(a)},
{utility-grade}]
2: capable of substituting in any of several positions on a
team; "a utility infielder" [syn: {utility(a)},
{substitute(a)}]
n 1: a company that performs a public service; subject to
government regulation [syn: {utility}, {public utility},
{public utility company}, {public-service corporation}]
2: the quality of being of practical use [syn: {utility},
{usefulness}] [ant: {inutility}, {unusefulness},
{uselessness}]
3: the service (electric power or water or transportation)
provided by a public utility; "the cost of utilities never
decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
4: (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any
situation involving choice
5: (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"
[syn: {utility program}, {utility}, {service program}]
6: 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"
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
utility /ytiliti/
1. utility
2. utility
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