Service Management Facility — (SMF) is a feature of the Solaris operating system that creates a supported, unified model for services and service management on each Solaris system and replaces init.d scripts. SMF introduces:* Dependency order . Services sometimes depend on… … Wikipedia
Service pistol — A Soviet officer, armed with a Tokarev TT 33 service pistol, urges Soviet troops forward against German positions during World War II A service pistol is any handgun issued to military personnel. Typically service pistols are revolvers or semi… … Wikipedia
Service-Finder — Research Project name=Service Finder title=Service Finder: Realizing Web Service Discovery at Web Scale keywords=Web Services, Semantics, Web 2.0, Annotation, Crawler, Indexer, Clustering, Discovery fundingAgency=European Union frameworkProgramme … Wikipedia
Service Oriented Programming — (SOP) is a programming paradigm that uses services as the unit of computer work, to design and implement integrated business applications and mission critical software programs. Services can represent steps of business processes and thus one of… … Wikipedia
Automatic link establishment — Automatic Link Establishment, commonly known as ALE, is the worldwide de facto standard for digitally initiating and sustaining HF (High Frequency) radio communications.cite web|title=Frequency Agile Systems in the MF/HF Bands |author=Telecom… … Wikipedia
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast — (ADS B) is a cooperative surveillance technique for air traffic control and related applications. An ADS B out equipped aircraft determines its own position using a global navigation satellite system and periodically broadcasts this position and… … Wikipedia
Automatic vehicle location — Automatic vehicle locating or AVL is a concept for determining the geographic location of a vehicle and transmitting this information to a point from where it was requested. Telelocating using location based services is a common term in the… … Wikipedia
Automatic number identification — (ANI) is a feature of telephony intelligent network services that permits subscribers to display or capture the telephone numbers of calling parties. In the United States it is part of Inward Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS). The ANI service… … Wikipedia
Automatic transmission fluid — (ATF) is the fluid used in vehicles with self shifting or automatic transmissions. It is typically colored red or green to distinguish it from motor oil and other fluids in the vehicle. On most vehicles its level is checked with a dipstick while… … Wikipedia
Automatic milking — is the milking of dairy animals without human labour.The milking processThe milking process is the collection of tasks specifically devoted to extracting milk from an animal (rather than the broader field of dairy animal husbandry). This process… … Wikipedia
Automatic quartz — is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self winding rotor mechanism (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide … Wikipedia