Utility vs Util - What's the difference?
utility | util |
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.
(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.
In economics terms the difference between utility and util
is that utility is the ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity while util is a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction.As nouns the difference between utility and util
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while util is a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction.utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsoutil
English
(wikipedia util)Noun
(en noun)- Where can I download free disk utils ?