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"SERVERS" is a plural of: server. |
Date "SERVERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Servers server. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A server in computing is:
- A computer software application that carries out some task on behalf of users. This is usually divided into file serving, allowing users to store and access files on a common computer; and application serving, where the software runs a computer program to carry out some task for the users. This is the original meaning of the term.
- The term is now also used to mean the actual computer on which the software runs. Originally server software would be located on a mainframe computer or minicomputer. These have largely been replaced by computers built using a more robust version of the microprocessor technology that is used in personal computers, and the server term was adopted to describe such microprocessor based machines.
Server Hardware
A Server computer shares its resources, such as peripherals and file storage with the users' computers, called clients, on a network. It is possible for a computer to be a client and a server simultaneously, by connecting to itself in the same way a separate computer would.
Many new devices now come with server capabilities. The X-Internet, Web Services, and Microsoft's .NET initiative all work to make even the smallest system a server.
Many large enterprises employ numerous servers to support their needs. A collection of servers in one location is often referred to as a server farm.
Server Operating Systems
The rise of the microprocessor based server was facilitated by the development of several versions of Unix to run on the Intel microprocessor architecture, including Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD. The Microsoft Windows series of operating systems also now includes server versions that support multitasking and other features required for servers, beginning with Windows NT.
Historical Note
Mainframes and minicomputers were originally accessed using dumb terminals, which were unable to carry out any significant processing. This largely ended with the widespread use of personal computers by users.
See Also
- Mail server
- Web server
- FTP server
- peer-to-peer
- client-server model
- History of computing hardware II
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Server."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term web server can mean one of two things:The most common HTTP servers are:
- a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers;
- a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents.
The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 60% of market share as of March 2003, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.
- Apache HTTP Server from the Apache Software Foundation
- Internet Information Server (IIS) from Microsoft
- Caudium (formerly Roxen)
- AOLserver from America Online
- thttpd from ACME Laboratories
- Zeus Web Server from Zeus Technology
- Sun ONE from Sun Microsystems (formerly Netscape's iPlanet nee Enterprise)
- iPlanet from Netscape Communications Corporation
- WebSTAR from 4D, Inc.
- Stronghold from Red Hat
- NCSA HTTPd
- Microsoft Windows PWS
You can find the current web servers statistics from the Netcraft Web Server Survey.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Web server."
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| "Ids servers 2" by Balázs Kovács Commentary: "Our new servers in IDS / cfm.hu." |
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Health | Each of these servers is "crawled" and indexed on an ongoing basis. (references) | |
Business | Personal Computers (PCs), printers, notebooks, and servers are the best prospects. (references) | |
Demand for PC LAN systems, PC servers, and integrated network systems will continue to be strong. (references) | ||
Isocor (Iceland) has some success among Vladivostok ISPs with its software applications for post servers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mali | Eight domestic servers provide access to the Internet. (references) |
Syria | The Government also periodically blocks access to servers that provide free e-mail services. (references) | |
Mali | Licenses to operate Internet servers are granted freely and are not prohibitively expensive. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | CINET, for example, produces PCs and Servers. (references) |
Hungary | Midrange servers can be considered as one of the best prospects. (references) | |
Korea | U.S. production equipment such as video servers, switchers, etc. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SERVERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SERVERS" is used about 683 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 683 | 9,693 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SERVERS": interfaces to information servers for cooperative work ♦ salad servers ♦ wide Area Information Servers. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SERVERS": file-servers, time-servers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bottler servers.ini | 6 |
gtld servers.net | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SERVERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 服务器 (server). (various references) | |
Finnish | salaattilusikat haarukat (salad servers), salaattilusikat (salad servers). (various references) | |
German | Diener (attendant, butler, follower, manservant, menials, menservants, servant, servants, server, servitor, valet). (various references) | |
Italian | posate da insalata (salad servers). (various references) | |
Korean | 서버 (server). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erverssay.(various references) | |
Swedish | salladbestick (salad servers). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SERVERS": conservers, deservers, interobservers, observers, preservers, reservers, timeservers. (additional references) | |
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"SERVERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cervera, Kervern, sererus, serever, serovar, Serrers, Servaas, Servaes, Servais, servals, servays, Servera, servere, servery, servier, servir, servire, servor, Severso, severus, surver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SERVERS" (pronounced ser"verz) |
| 4 | -er" v er z | observers, preservers. |
| 3 | -v er z | achievers, avers, beavers, believers, bolivars, cabdrivers, cadavers, caregivers, carvers, cavers, changeovers, covers, delivers, discovers, dissolvers, divers, drivers, elvers, endeavors, favors, fevers, flavors, givers, grievers, hangovers, holdovers, hovers, Lavers, layovers, leftovers, levers, lifesavers, livers, lovers, maneuvers, movers, nonbelievers, overs, plovers, receivers, recovers, relievers, retrievers, revolvers, rivers, rollovers, savers, savors, screwdrivers, severs, shavers, shivers, Silvers, slivers, solvers, stivers, stopovers, survivors, takeovers, turnovers, uncovers, underachievers, waivers, weavers, woodcarvers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: versers. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-r-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: revers, server, serves, severs, verser, verses. | |
-2 letters: erses, seers, serer, seres, serve, sever, veers, verse. | |
-3 letters: errs, eses, ever, eves, rees, revs, seer, sees, sere, sers, veer, vees. | |
-4 letters: ere, err, ers, ess, eve, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee. | |
-5 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-r-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: reserves, reverses, reversos, revisers, swervers. | |
+2 letters: deservers, observers, overdress, overseers, preserves, reservers, reservist, resilvers, resolvers, restrives, resurveys, reversals, reversers, servicers, shiverers, silverers, slaverers, sliverers, traverses. | |
+3 letters: conservers, conversers, driverless, harvesters, overassert, oversteers, overstress, overstrews, perseveres, preservers, regressive, reobserves, reoviruses, repressive, reservices, reservists, reservoirs, reversions, riversides, scriveners, subverters, transverse, traversers, unreserves, versifiers. | |
+4 letters: adversaries, advertisers, discoverers, foreverness, herpesvirus, overasserts, overbrowses, overdressed, overdresses, overimpress, overinsures, overmasters, overpraises, overprocess, overserious, overspreads, overstories, overstrides, overstrikes, perversions, preharvests, progressive, rediscovers, reversibles, silverwares, strikeovers, timeservers, transverses, verdigrises, vinedresser. | |
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