 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
server
noun
1: a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a
restaurant) [syn: {waiter}]
2: (court games) 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: utensil used in serving food or drink
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Server \Serv"er\, noun
1. One who serves.
2. A tray for dishes; a salver. --Randolph.
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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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