utility

1. is a type of: service - a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
   subtypes:

   • phone company, phone service, telco, telephone company, telephone service - a public utility that provides telephone service
   • electric company, light company, power company, power service - a public utility that provides electricity
   • water company, waterworks - a public utility that provides water
   • gas company, gas service - a public utility that provides gas
   • bus company, bus service - a public utility providing local transportation
   same as: public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation
2. tells us about:

   • useful, utile - being of use or service
   • useless - having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
   is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
   subtypes:

   • detergence, detergency - detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power
   • function, purpose, role, use - what something is used for
   • helpfulness - the property of providing useful assistance
   • use - a particular service
   • serviceability, serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness - the quality of being able to provide good service
   • instrumentality - the quality of being instrumental for some purpose
   • practicality - concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
   • practicability, practicableness - the quality of being usable
   same as: usefulness
3. is a type of: service - work done by one person or group that benefits another
4. referred to in: economic science, economics, political economy - the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
   is a type of: metric, system of measurement - a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
   subtypes: marginal utility - (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service
5. referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
   is a type of: computer program, computer programme, program, programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
   subtypes:

   • device driver, driver - (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
   • diagnostic program - a program that recognizes and explains faults in the equipment or mistakes in a computer program
   • input program - a utility program that organizes the input to a computer
   • output program - a utility program that organizes the output of a computer
   • sort program, sorting program - a utility program that sorts data items
   • trace program - a utility program that exhibits the sequence and results of executing the instructions in another program
   has: service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed
   same as: service program, utility program
6. is a type of: facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
   subtypes:

   • electrical plant, electrical system - utility that provides electricity
   • heat, heating, heating plant, heating system - utility to warm a building
   • plumbing, plumbing system - utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage

1. similar to: inferior - of low or inferior quality
   same as: utility-grade
2. similar to: secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
   same as: substitute

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