4  definitions  found 
 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  server 
  n  1:  a  person  whose  occupation  is  to  serve  at  table  (as  in  a 
  restaurant)  [syn:  {waiter}] 
  2:  (tennis)  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:  something  used  in  serving  food  or  drink 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  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  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 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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) 
 
 

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