Server : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Server	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Server
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
server n a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) Synonym(s): waiter, server (court games) the player who serves to start a point (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network Synonym(s): server, host utensil used in serving food or drink
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Server \Serv"er\, n. 1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. --Randolph.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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 server 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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 PC}s. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-08)