{s} made for many practical uses or useful intentions; intended for service or practical use and not as a high quality; (USA) usable but inferior (of beef)
In some cases, the utility relocation work associated with a project must be programmed separately from the actual construction phase of work These items are shown under the "Utility" category Capital Acquisition (CAP) Term used to denote the acquisition of rolling stock by NJ TRANSIT
A small computer program that performs some very useful function For example, utilities exist to convert files from one format to another, to compress files, to detect and eliminate viruses, and to defragment hard drives Utilities fill the gaps in an operating system, providing useful features that were left out As an operating system grows, it often incorporates the features that were previously delivered only by utilities
A specialized computer program used to enhance a particular function or aspect of the computer work environment; for example, programs for doing automatic back-ups, diagnosing disk problems, detecting eliminating viruses, and screen saving are all utilities
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"
A company or other organization that provides a public service, such as supplying electricity, natural gas, or water
A software program designed to perform a computer system's routine housekeeping functions, like copying, deleting files, and/or providing techniques to simplify the execution of a program
A private business organization, subject to governmental regulation, that provides an essential commodity or service, such as water, electricity, transportation, or communication, to the public
a program that performs tasks related to the maintaining of your computer's health - hardware or data
Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, the foundation of utilitarianism
(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"
A power company that owns or operates facilities used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy, which is regulated at state and federal levels
A regulated entity which exhibits the characteristics of a natural monopoly For the purposes of electric industry restructuring, "utility" refers to the regulated, vertically-integrated electric company "Transmission utility" refers to the regulated owner/operator of the transmission system only "Distribution utility" refers to the regulated owner/operator of the distribution system which serves retail customers
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
A utility is an important service such as water, electricity, or gas that is provided for everyone, and that everyone pays for. public utilities such as gas, electricity and phones
a program that performs some specific task or collection of tasks (e g maintaining the integrity of your hard disk; cf application above)
organization that provides a public service like the water, telephone, electric or gas company
Program that performs a specific function such as communication, file management or any other task that pertains to the user's computing environment and is not likely to be included in the choices from an application such as a word processor
kamu hizmet kuruluşu (elektrik şirketi, telefon şirketi v.b.)