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Audio Help [sur-ver] Pronunciation Key | 1. | a person who serves. |
| 2. | something that serves or is used in serving, as a salver. |
| 3. | a broad fork, spoon, or spatula for dishing out and serving individual portions of food, as vegetables, cake, or pie. |
| 4. | Ecclesiastical. an attendant on the priest at Mass, who arranges the altar, makes the responses, etc. |
| 5. | (in tennis, badminton, handball, etc.) the player who puts the ball or shuttlecock in play. |
| 6. | a computer that makes services, as access to data files, programs, and peripheral devices, available to workstations on a network. Compare client (def. 5), file server. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
server
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| serv·er
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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| 1. | a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) [syn: waiter] |
| 2. | (court games) the player who serves to start a point |
| 3. | (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network |
| 4. | utensil used in serving food or drink |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈserver1 noun
Example: salad servers
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
| server
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A computer that manages centralized data storage or network communications resources. A server provides and organizes access to these resources for other computers linked to it. |
| The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
server
Computer or software that performs administration or coordination functions within a network.
[Chapter:] Technology
| The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
server
1. A program which provides some service to other (client) programs. The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing, often over a network, and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and the server's responses. The server may run continuously (as a daemon), waiting for requests to arrive or it may be invoked by some higher level daemon which controls a number of specific servers (inetd on Unix).
There are many servers associated with the Internet, such as those for HTTP, Network File System, Network Information Service (NIS), Domain Name System (DNS), FTP, news, finger, Network Time Protocol. On Unix, a long list can be found in /etc/services or in the NIS database "services". See client-server.
2. A computer which provides some service for other computers connected to it via a network. The most common example is a file server which has a local disk and services requests from remote clients to read and write files on that disk, often using Sun's Network File System (NFS) protocol or Novell Netware on PCs. Another common example is a web server.
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| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Server
Serv"er\, n. 1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. --Randolph.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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