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Service may refer to:
Acts of service
- Administrative service, a part of the work load of university faculty
- Civil service, career employees of government
- Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
- Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
- Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
- Domestic service, employment in a residence
- Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
- Military service, a country's armed forces
- Public services, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
- Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award
- Service of process or police administration — and warrants, by Sheriffs in the United States
Religion
- Church service, Christian communal worship, often held in a church building
- Divine Service (Lutheran), the public worship of Lutheran churches
- Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
- Service of worship, a meeting for the worship of a religious deity
Economics and business
- Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within the service-product continuum
- Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy
- Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
- Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
- Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
- Building services engineering
- Service provider (SP), including in IT service management (ITSM):
- Communications service provider (CSP), including:
- Network service provider (NSP), including:
- Telecommunications service provider (TSP)
- Broadcasting service provider
- Internet service provider (ISP)
- Network service provider (NSP), including:
- Managed services provider (MSP), including:
- Application service provider (ASP)
- Storage service provider (SSP)
- Hosted service provider (xSP), combining offers of a CSP (usually an ISP) and an MSP (usually an ASP)
- Communications service provider (CSP), including:
Technology
- The function provided by a server (computing)
- Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network
- Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
- Local implementations in software:
- Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
- Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
- A program in the Services menu under Mac OS X that processes selected data
- Network service
- Telecommunications service, including:
- Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
- Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
- Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
- Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
- Web hosting service
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Service mode, a hidden mode on an electronic device that can be entered by a code, giving access to service features or maintenance
- Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
Media
- Service (film), a 2008 film
- Service (record label)
Arts
- Service, an album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Service, a play by the British writer Dodie Smith
Other
- Service (surname)
- Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code
- Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
- Service (motor vehicle)
- Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
- Service Tree (Sorbus domestica), a species of tree
- Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska