Utility vs Junction - What's the difference?
utility | junction |
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 joining, or the state of being joined.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
(radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
As nouns the difference between utility and junction
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while junction is the act of joining, or the state of being joined.utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsojunction
English
(wikipedia junction)Noun
(en noun)- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
- Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions .