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Definitions of Client:

a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
customer: someone who pays for goods or services
node: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
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Client are a Futurist European music duo who have toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia. They combine Scandinavian airline hostess uniforms with glamour-girl aesthetics and harsh electronics to create a sound reminiscent of early forays into electronic sound manipulation and new wave.
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In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. The term was first applied to devices that were not capable of running their own stand-alone programs, but could interact with remote computers via a network. These dumb terminals were clients of the time-sharing mainframe computer.
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A client is the requesting program or user in a client/server relationship. For example, the user of a Web browser is effectively making client requests for pages from servers all over the Web. The browser itself is a client in its relationship with the computer that is getting and returning the requested HTML file. The computer handling the request and sending back the HTML file is a server.
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a computer program or terminal that requests information or services from another computer (a server) on the network
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means the person; firm or corporate body together with any subsidiary or associated Company as defined by the Companies Act 1985 to which the Applicant is introduced;
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is a term used to refer to any application that communicates with other applications and requests and receives data - for example a web browser. Most applications on the Internet are in a client-server relationship. The term is relative since an application may be a client to one application but a server to another - for example a proxy server.
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A computer or an application that calls on a server's services.
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A remote computer connected to a host or server computer. Also refers to the software that makes this connection possible, such as an FTP client.
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A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer.
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The persons or group that are the direct beneficiaries of a project or service. They are the people for whom the project is being undertaken. (Indirect beneficiaries are probably stakeholders.) If the persons or group are internal within your company, TenStep refers to them as "clients". If they are external, TenStep refers to them as "customers".
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A program unit which makes use of the services provided by a particular package.
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A computer that has access to services over a computer network. The computer providing the services is a server. Note: in an X-11 environment, the meanings of client and server are reversed.
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The client software or simply client is the non-GM software that uses GM to provide a reliable ordered message delivery service. It can be an application, or a higher level networking layer, such as the MPICH over GM implementation provided by Myricom.
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Computer hardware or software used by an end user on a computer network or the internet to query a remote server. A web browser is an example of client software. Also called a local computer.
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A computer in a network which uses services, programs, or storage provided by a separate "server" computer.
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A computer program that works on the searcher's behalf to contact a compatible information source, called a server, elsewhere on the Internet. A client is like a librarian working for you. You need information and the librarian goes out and gets it. One of the earliest clients on the Internet was Telnet. You can use Telnet to contact library catalog and database servers all over the world. ...
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a software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a Server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each Client program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of Server programs, and each Server requires a specific kind of Client. A Web Browser is a specific kind of Client.
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A person under the protection of another; one who engages the professional advice or services of another.
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The computer making a request across a network to another computer is referred to as the client computer. Thus, a computer using a printer that is shared from another computer is referred to as the (print) client computer. The other computer is referred to as the server.
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Any computer connected to a network that requests services (files, print capability) from another member of the network.
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A computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system or process.
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A computer that has access to services over a computer network. The computer providing the services is a server. Client-Server Architecture: An information-passing scheme that works as follows: a client program, such as Mosaic, sends a request to a server. The server takes the request, disconnects from the client and processes the request. When the request is processed, the server reconnects to the client program and the information is transferred to the client. ...
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A client is an application that runs on a computer and is connected to a server in order to run certain operations. A typical client may be a Web browser or an email program.
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A computer, or the software running on a computer, that interacts with another computer at a remote site (server). Note the difference between client and user.
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A computer, program or process which makes requests for information from another computer, program or process. Web browsers are client programs. Search engine spiders are (or can be said to behave as) clients.
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The SNMP Console that requests and listens for information from SNMP Servers (Agents). The information can be “pulled” from the agent by querying it or “pushed” to the console by simply listening for asynchronous events known as SNMP Traps. Color Shift A change in the tint of a white field across an image.
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On the Internet, a program that requests files or services from a server.
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