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client-server

client-server

1 4.5
Relating to a computer system where one central computer provides services to many connected computers
  • adjective
  • /ˈklaɪəntˌsɜrvər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cliente-servidor
  • A client-server system is often more efficient for processing large amounts of data than a standalone computer.
  • client-server computing
  • client-server architecture
  • client-server system

It was going to support I client server rather than peer-to-peer.

Examples

  • Over the past two decades, IT professionals have had to break out of their comfort with proprietary systems as the industry moved to client-server computing and then to open computing.

    Blog text (18)

  • In a client-server network, the server provides data and resources to multiple client machines connected to it.

  • So what this means is client server made the World Wide Web possible.

  • The past two decades have given us client-server, the Internet, and Web 2.0.

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  • It's really just a different world with steps created in a slightly different way that has some advantages over traditional client-server programming.

    Blog text (17)

  • The GeoMonitor GIS is designed in a client-server architecture with a thin client.

    Academic text (2018)

  • When the price of power drifts into the stratosphere, that sort of centralized client-server structure will simply become too expensive to maintain.

    Blog text (33)

  • The downturn in the early 1990s led to widespread adoption of client-server technologies, which enabled companies to eliminate layers of management.

    Blog text (17)

  • In the client-server mode, the user interface part of the TPC-A benchmark runs on one or more client machines, while the rest runs on a server.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Many businesses rely on client-server architectures to streamline their operations and improve communication between devices.

How Centralized

centralized
  • US
9 4.4
client-server
  • Specialized
1 4.5
peer-to-peer
  • Specialized
5 4.4

Surface Forms

client-server positive

Morphology

client-server = client + server (transparent) = client + server

A direct technical compound of two common nouns in computing; the combined meaning is compositional and predictable for learners familiar with the component words.

Etymology

The word client-server comes from two simple words: client, which originally meant someone who 'depends on' or gets help, and server, from the verb serve, meaning 'to give help or a service'. So in computing a client asks for something and a server provides it, and that simple giving-and-taking is exactly what the term describes.