Utility vs Functionality - What's the difference?
utility | functionality |
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 ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
(US, legal) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
(organic chemistry) The presence of a functional group.
:: The vinyldiazomethanes that have been commonly used in our studies contain an electron-withdrawing group adjacent to the diazo functionality .
As nouns the difference between utility and functionality
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while functionality is the ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.utility
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(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsofunctionality
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