Utility (disambiguation)

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Utility may refer to:

• Utility, a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics and game theory
• Utility (patent) (usefulness), one of the requirements for patentability in United States patent law
• Public utility or utility company, a broader term, encompassing companies that maintain the infrastructure for one or more public services
• Utilities, refers collectively to specific universally needed services or commodities that are provided to homes and businesses through passive connections to larger systems, and are usually billed separately to the owner or tenant. Namely electric power, natural gas, drinking water, and sewage collection. The term sometimes extends to include telecommunications, roads and highways, postal service, sanitation (garbage collection), and public transport
• Marginal utility, the utility of a good or service's least urgent possible use, from the best feasible combination of actions in which its use is included
• Network Utility, an application included with Mac OS X that provides a variety of computer network information
• Utility software or a utility program, a software program that functions for a particular purpose
• Utility player (baseball), baseball players who play more than one position regularly.
• Utility man, an unofficial term for a player who can be "plugged in" to many positions in football (soccer)
• Utility vehicle, a term used in Australia and New Zealand to refer to a pickup truck or coupe utility vehicle ("ute")
• Utility vehicle, a term used in the United Kingdom to refer to a basic vehicle, especially a bus, lorry or railway locomotive built during time of war to a basic, rugged specification, without unnecessary accessories or luxury.
• Utility model, an intellectual property right to protect inventions

[edit] See also

• all articles starting with "utility"

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