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Noun utility has 6 senses
- utility, public utility, public-service corporation - a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
--1 is a kind of service
--1 has particulars: | | telephone company, telephone service, phone company, phone service, telco; power company, power service, electric company, light company; water company, waterworks; gas company, gas service; bus company, bus service |
- utility, usefulness - the quality of being of practical use
--2 is a kind of quality
Antonyms: inutility, uselessness, unusefulness
--2 has particulars:
- utility - the service provided by a utility company; "the cost of utilities never decreases"
--3 is a kind of service
- utility - (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
--4 is a kind of system of measurement, metric
--4 has particulars: marginal utility
- utility program, utility, service program - (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"
--5 is a kind of program, programme, computer program, computer programme
--5 has parts: utility routine, service routine
--5 has particulars:
- utility - 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"
--6 is a kind of facility, installation
--6 has particulars:
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