Util vs Utile - What's the difference?
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(economics) a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction
* "After one ride, Edgar has a total of 11 utils of utility. [...] After two rides, Edgar is now up to 20 utils of satisfaction. [...] A third ride increases Edgar's total utility up to 27 utils of satisfaction." — [http://www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/wpd.pl/wpd.pl?fcd=dsp&key=total+utility]
(informal, computing) A utility.
Useful.
* 1969 , , Ada or Ardor , 2011 Penguin edition, p. 16:
(economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
* 2002 , Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality , ISBN 9780838638996,
* 2006 , "
Utile is a synonym of util.
In economics terms the difference between util and utile
is that util is a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction while utile is a theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.As an adjective utile is
useful.util
English
(wikipedia util)Noun
(en noun)- Where can I download free disk utils ?
Synonyms
* (unit of satisfaction) hedon, utileAntonyms
* (unit of satisfaction) dolor ----utile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets [...].
Noun
(en noun)p. 29 (Google preview):
- Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles' procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most ' utiles .
Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):
- [T]he ‘happiness utile ’ does not exist, at least not yet.