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🙋 A person asking 💻 A system sending
requestor

requestor

6.5
A computer program or device that asks another system for information
  • noun
  • /rɪˈkwɛstər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : solicitante
  • A user acts as a requestor when they submit a query to the database for information.

Examples

  • Normally in this situation, a regular round-robin would be updated and a new store requestor would be given the highest priority in the following cycle.

    Academic text (1997)

  • After the initial filtering at the four prepriority stations, the surviving requestors meet in central priority for final selection into the pipeline for processing.

    Academic text (1997)

  • At this station, a straightforward priority order chain selects the requestor.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Each selects one of its requestors and then forwards the request to central priority.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The central priority logic ultimately selects one requestor and gates the corresponding requestor information (such as address, command, mode, etc.) into the pipeline.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Specifically, these address comparisons protect against concurrent conflicting data accesses by multiple requestors.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Data are routed to the requestor CP immediately; the LFAR controller then schedules the appropriate cache array update.

    Academic text (1997)

  • A total of 16 hardware requestors, dedicated for CP, BSN, and internal L2 facility requests, can vie for priority to enter the pipeline.

    Academic text (1997)

  • In a computer network, the requestor sends a message to the server to retrieve data.

  • The requestor in the communication protocol initiates a data request to another system.

Synonyms

requester
vsrequestor
  • UK
1 4.4

A program or person that asks a server to send data

is the same concept but presented as an alternative form in usage
supplicant
vsrequestor
  • Specialized
9.5

A device or program that asks to join a network by sending login details

is broader and initiates any service request rather than only authentication
querier
vsrequestor
8.4

Someone or something that asks a question to get information

focuses on initiating service or server requests rather than asking questions

Antonyms

responder
72 3.0

A person who answers questions or reacts to events

How Complex

orchestrator
  • Specialized
7.5
agent
  • Specialized
14 6.6
client
  • Specialized
103 3.0
requestor
  • Specialized
6.5
script
  • Specialized
70 3.6

Surface Forms

requestor singular
requestors plural

Morphology

requestor = request (transparent) = request + or

Agentive formation from 'request' is preserved; applied to systems in computing but the 'one who initiates a request' sense is predictable.

Etymology

The word requestor comes from request ('to ask') plus the ending -or ('one who'), so it means the 'one who asks'. In computing, that 'one who asks' is a program or device that sends a request to another system or server, so a requestor is the system that starts the request.