server meaning

• Noun: server  survu(r)
  1. A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
     - waiter, waitron [US, S.Africa] 
  2. (court games) the player who serves to start a point 
  3. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
     - host 
  4. Utensil used in serving food or drink

  Derived forms: servers

  See also: serve

  Type of: computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, dining-room attendant, electronic computer, information processing system, participant, player, restaurant attendant, utensil

  Part of: computer network

  Encyclopedia: Server

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  [Business]
  AmE / (also file server) noun [C]

  CLIENT-SERVER, TIME-SERVER

  (IT )

  a computer program that controls or supplies information to several computers connected in a network; the main computer on which this program is run:

  a server-based network

  server-based software

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  [Computer]
  1. A program which provides some service to other (client) programs. The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing, often over a network, and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and the server's responses. The server may run continuously (as a daemon), waiting for requests to arrive or it may be invoked by some higher level daemon which controls a number of specific servers (inetd on Unix).
  
  There are many servers associated with the Internet, such as those for HTTP, Network File System, Network Information Service (NIS), Domain Name System (DNS), FTP, news, finger, Network Time Protocol. On Unix, a long list can be found in /etc/services or in the NIS database "services". See client-server.
  
  2. A computer which provides some service for other computers connected to it via a network. The most common example is a file server which has a local disk and services requests from remote clients to read and write files on that disk, often using Sun's Network File System (NFS) protocol or Novell Netware on PCs. Another common example is a web server.

• application server:    [Computer]1. <s ...
• client-server:    Adjective: client- ...
• client/server:    [Computer]<prog ...

Examples

1. element that can be programmed with server code
2. allows programmatic access on the server to the html
3. parameter and the server channel property
4. tablerow web server control declarative syntax
5. tell me what that process server was doing snooping around