Utility (disambiguation)

Utility is a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics and game theory.

Utility or Utilities may also refer to:

In computer science
  • Utility, a software program designed for a specific task: see List of utility software
  • Software tool
  • utility (C++), a header file in the C++ Standard Library

In economics
  • Utility, a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics and game theory
    • Cardinal utility, a utility index that preserves preference orderings
    • Marginal utility, the change in the utility from an increase in the consumption of a good or service

In philosophy

Other uses
  • Public utility, an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service, or the services themselves
  • Utilities (film), a 1981 movie starring Robert Hays
  • Utility (patent), one of the requirements for patentability in Canadian and United States patent laws
  • Utility (car), a term used in Australia and New Zealand to refer to a pickup truck or coupe utility vehicle ("ute")
  • Utility player, a term used in sports for a player who can play several positions competently.
  • Utility furniture, produced in the United Kingdom during and just after World War II, under a Government scheme designed to cope with shortages of raw materials and rationing
  • Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform, often abbreviated to "Utilities", the battledress uniform of the United States Marine Corps
gollark: Excellent, guess I'll consider using that.
gollark: I was looking at it, but since I think the backend is closed source I currently just operate a somewhat accursed Wireguard network with routing.
gollark: I feel mostly safe due to having been (partly, at least) vaccinated and being young enough to not be at significant risk anyway.
gollark: Governments have also recently rather liked doing/trying to do plausibly-deniable things which make end to end encryption impractical for people, so the objection of not being able to see or filter the content would probably not work very well.
gollark: Consider the difficulty of designing a working car versus trying to patch together a bad car after it's done while it's driving and incapable of stopping without exploding.

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Utility
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