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FILE SERVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a digital computer that provides workstations on a network with controlled access to shared resources
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("file server" is a kind of...):
digital computer (a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "file server"):
dedicated file server ((computer science) a file server that can be used only as a file server)
non-dedicated file server ((computer science) a file server that can be used simultaneously as a workstation)
