Any feature of a golf club that is unique to a particular manufacturer For example, each manufacturer's head or shaft designs are proprietary to that manufacturer Proprietary designs, logos, etc are often patented by the company developing them in order to secure their exclusive use for a given time period
Means not in accordance with a general standard -- created for a given company's purposes For example, MS Word stores Word documents in a proprietary format Similarly, the dBase command language is a programming language intended for use with the dBase programs only It is a proprietary programming language
Manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell [from U S Statutes]
In information technology, proprietary describes a technology or product that is owned exclusively by a single company that carefully guards knowledge about the technology or the product's inner workings Some proprietary products can only function properly if at all when used with other products owned by the same company
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
proprietorship: an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession
This is a word that is (unfortunately) used fairly frequently in the computer and audio worlds In the broader sense, proprietary means that a concept or product is unique to, and the property of a manufacturer or company More commonly, proprietary refers to a manufacturer designing a product to only work with other products from that same manufacturer For example, a manufacturer might make a synthesizer that can only save patch information to specific, specially designed RAM cards, rather than to more universal PCMCIA cards, floppy disks, or whatever In order to save that synth's information you would be required to use the proprietary cards available only from that manufacturer While the word "proprietary" is often given a negative connotation, keep in mind that building gear around proprietary designs and options allows a manufacturer to implement features that might not be possible if everything were standardized and generic
Proprietary substances or products are sold under a trade name. some proprietary brands of dog food We had to take action to protect the proprietary technology. generic