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Utility   /jutˈɪləti/   Listen
Utility

noun
1.
A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.  Synonyms: public-service corporation, public utility, public utility company.
2.
The quality of being of practical use.  Synonym: usefulness.
3.
The service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility.  "All the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
4.
(economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.
5.
(computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer.  Synonyms: service program, utility program.
6.
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.
adjective
1.
Used of beef; usable but inferior.  Synonym: utility-grade.
2.
Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team.  Synonym: substitute.



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"Utility" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rider alights, without the use of the reins for that purpose. At first a foreigner is apt to regard the equipments of a Peruvian horse as superfluous and burthensome; but he is soon convinced of their utility, and, when the eye becomes familiar to them, ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
... it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things, which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity." These words, of one whose worldly wisdom was more profoundly studied than ever Browning's was, might stand as a motto for the poem. But the pregnant sentence of Bacon which ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... function cannot be so delegated. At least we know of no human society in which the birth and rearing of children has not been the essential function of the family. From a sociological point of view the childless family is a failure. While the childless family may be of social utility to the individuals that form it, nevertheless from the point of view of society such a family has failed to perform its most important function and must be considered, therefore, ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood
... confessed that he was baffled by many of Bergson's notions. James certainly neglected many of the deeper metaphysical aspects of Bergson's thought, which did not harmonize with his own, and are even in direct contradiction. In addition to this Bergson is no pragmatist, for him "utility," so far from being a test of truth, is rather the ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
... means of evading the canonical prohibitions of usury, and became the loanmongers of prince and subject alike. To the crown the Italians were more useful than the Jews had been. The value of the Jews to the monarch had been in the special facilities enjoyed by him in taxing them. The utility of the Italian societies was in their power of advancing sums of money that enabled the king to embark on enterprises hitherto beyond the limited resources of the medieval state. The Italians financed ...
— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout


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