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 Definitions for server: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Server \Serv"er\, n.
1. One who serves.
[1913 Webster]
2. A tray for dishes; a salver. --Randolph.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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server
n 1: a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a
restaurant) [syn: waiter]
2: (court games) the player who serves to start a point
3: (computer science) a computer that provides client stations
with access to files and printers as shared resources to a
computer network [syn: host]
4: utensil used in serving food or drink
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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server n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester
and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the
requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which
is rife with `web servers', `name servers', `domain servers', `news
servers', `finger servers', and the like.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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server
1. A program which provides some service to other (client)
programs. The connection between client and server is
normally by means of message passing, often over a network,
and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and
the server's responses. The server may run continuously (as a
daemon), waiting for requests to arrive or it may be invoked
by some higher level daemon which controls a number of
specific servers (inetd on Unix). There are many servers
associated with the Internet, such as those for {Network File
System}, Network Information Service (NIS), {Domain Name
System} (DNS), FTP, news, finger, {Network Time
Protocol}. On Unix, a long list can be found in /etc/services
or in the NIS database "services". See {client-server}.
2. A computer which provides some service for other computers
connected to it via a network. The most common example is a
file server which has a local disk and services requests
from remote clients to read and write files on that disk,
often using Sun's Network File System (NFS) protocol or
Novell Netware on IBM PCs.
[Jargon File]
(1996-09-08)
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