service

service

Functionality derived from a particular software program. For example, network services may refer to programs that transmit data or provide conversion of data in a network. Database services provide for the storage and retrieval of data in a database. Web services are applications that interact with each other on the Internet (see Web services).

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service

1. the supply, installation, or maintenance of goods carried out by a dealer

2. a department of public employment and its employees

3. the work of a public servant

4. public worship carried out according to certain prescribed forms

5. the prescribed form according to which a specific kind of religious ceremony is to be carried out

6. a unified collection of musical settings of the canticles and other liturgical items prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer as used in the Church of England

7. (in feudal law) the duty owed by a tenant to his lord

8. the serving of a writ, summons, etc., upon a person

9. Nautical a length of tarred marline or small stuff used in serving

10. (of male animals) the act of mating

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(networking, programming)

service - Work performed (or offered) by a server. This may mean simply serving simple requests for data to be sent or stored (as with file servers, gopher or http servers, e-mail servers, finger servers, SQL servers, etc.); or it may be more complex work, such as that of irc servers, print servers, X Windows servers, or process servers. E.g. "Access to the finger service is restricted to the local subnet, for security reasons".