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Utility vs Infrastructure - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between utility and infrastructure

is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while infrastructure is an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

utility

English

Noun

(utilities)
  • 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.
  • I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
  • (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being useful) usefulness, * See also

    infrastructure

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia infrastructure) (en noun)
  • An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system
  • The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society
  • Synonyms

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