Utility vs Equipment - What's the difference?
utility | equipment |
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
* (rfdate) :
Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage
* 11 July 2013 , Jo Confino in The Guardian Online'', ''How technology has stopped evolution and is destroying the world[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/technology-stopped-evolution-destroying-world?INTCMP=SRCH]
* (rfdate) :
As nouns the difference between utility and equipment
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while equipment is the act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsoequipment
English
Noun
(-)- The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
- Tompkins is considered a hero in the deep ecology movement and works hand in hand with his wife Kris, the former CEO of the outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia.
- Armed and dight, In the equipment of a knight.
