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utility
English
Etymology
utile +? -ity, from Old French utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ?tilit?s, from uti (“to use”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??t?l.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
- 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
Antonyms
- disutility
- inutility
Derived terms
- beautility
- multiutility
- utilitarian
Translations
Adjective
utility
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- utility line; utility bill
- Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).
- utility room
Synonyms
- (state of being useful): usefulness, note
- See also Thesaurus:utility
Spanish
Noun
utility m (plural utilitys)
- (sports) utility
utility From the web:
- what utility services my address
- what utility district am i in
- what utility is heat
- what utility knife used for
- what utility does bitcoin have
- what utility means
- what utility is hot water
- what utility is heat under
accessibility
English
Etymology
From accessible +? -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æk?s?s.??b?l.?t.i/
Noun
accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)
- The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
- (computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
- Synonym: a11y
- 2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest ?ISBN, page 4
- The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]
Translations
Further reading
- accessibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
accessibility From the web:
- what accessibility means
- what accessibility should a website have
- what accessibility of scholarly articles
- what accessibility means to me
- what accessibility of book
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