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client

(1) The user's computer (PC, Mac, workstation). The term implies that the client is connected to a network. See client download, client/server, thin client and fat client.

(2) One end of the spectrum in a request/supply relationship between programs. See X Window and OLE.

(3) The customer of a vendor or consultant. The client of an IT department is the end user.




client
1. a customer
2. a person who is registered with or receiving services or financial aid from a welfare agency
3. Computing a program or work station that requests data or information from a server

client [′klīยทənt]
(computer science)
A hardware or software entity that requests shared services from a server.

(programming)client - A computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system or process (a "server") using some kind of protocol and accepts the server's responses. A client is part of a client-server software architecture.

For example, a workstation requesting the contents of a file from a file server is a client of the file server.


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But in the Fourth Gospel, there is only one patron (God) and one clientage (Israel, including the Johannine group), but competing brokers (Jesus vs.
82) Within the polity of the village, just as within the wider polity of the realm, links of clientage and deference constituted one of the forces that bound together a profoundly unequal society.
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