Definition of servers Servers
/sɚˈvɚz/ - [serverz] -
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What does servers mean?
Wiktionary 
- servers (Noun)
Plural of server.
Part of speech
🔤- servers, noun, plural of server.
WordNet
NounPlural: servers |
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| server - (court games) the player who serves to start a point | ||
| participant, player someone who takes part in an activity | ||
| court game an athletic game played on a court | ||
| server - (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | ||
| host | ||
| computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system, computer a machine for performing calculations automatically | ||
| computer network (computer science) a network of computers | ||
| server - utensil used in serving food or drink | ||
| utensil an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | ||
| server - a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | ||
| waiter | ||
| dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant someone employed to provide service in a dining room | ||
| carhop a waiter at a drive-in restaurant | ||
| counterman, counterperson, counterwoman someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | ||
| sommelier, wine steward, wine waiter a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- server (n.)
One who serves. - server (n.)
A tray for dishes; a salver.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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server
A computer that provides services to other interconnected computers (the clients). -
server
An attendant who offers or distributes food and drink to those in an eating place (at a restaurant, a refectory, etc.).
Wikipedia 
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In net jargon (words people use about the Internet) a server is a computer that serves many things from user, or client machines. Usually a server will only do a few things. Every type of thing a server does is called a service. Services are used by other computers that are called clients. The relationship between the client and the server is called a client-server relationship. For example, Wikipedia has a web server which has a service for sending web pages over the Internet. Your client computer talks to the Wikipedia's web page service to get web pages for you.
So that servers and clients can talk to each other, they need to be connected to a network, and they need to use the same protocol. In networks, a protocol is a set way for machines to talk to other machines - like a language. For example, the Wikipedia server runs the HTTP (Hyper-text transfer protocol) to send web sites to your computer, and your computer uses the HTTP Protocol to ask Wikipedia for pages.
Usually, servers are specially made to be more powerful and reliable, and they are more expensive than normal computers. Sometimes, servers can be clustered, which means that lots of servers work together to do one service.
In a peer to peer system, every computer is both a client and a server to each other. This is commonly implemented in file sharing and VOIP. However, this can aid in attempts at piracy.
Part of speech
🔤- server, noun, singular of servers.
