Service

Service may refer to:

Activities

For religious activities, see § Religion.

• Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
• Civil service, the body of employees of a government
• Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
• Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
• Military service, serving in a country's armed forces
• Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England
• Public service, 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.

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Service (album), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
• Service (film), a 2008 film
• Service (play), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith
• Service (record label), a Swedish record label
• "Service" (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
• The Service, an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau

Economics and business

• Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes
• Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum
  • Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
  • Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including:
    • Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
    • Domestic service, employment in a residence
    • Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
  • Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
    • Service design
    • Service management
    • Services marketing
• Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
  • Service-level agreement
  • Managed services
  • Outsourcing
• Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations
• Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

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 (Tenrikyo), the liturgy of the Tenrikyo religion
• Son of man came to serve, concerning Jesus
• Dharma, Buddhist doctrine of service and interconnectedness
  • Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva, a form of servant leadership within Dharmic practice

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

• Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
  • Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
  • 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, the function provided by a server (computing)
• Service, local implementations in software:
  • Service, a program in the services menu under macOS that processes selected data
  • Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
  • Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
• Network service
• Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
• Telecommunications service, including:
  • Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • Web hosting service
  • Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
• Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
  • Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
    • GSM services

Other uses in technology

• Service (motor vehicle), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance
• Building services engineering
• Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

Other uses

• A collection of matching tableware:
  • Tea service
  • Dinner service
  • Cabaret service
• Servant leadership, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below
• Service (surname)
• Service, Missouri, a community in the United States
• Empire Service (1943–1961), one of the Empire ships in service of the British government
• Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
• Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska
• Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
• Services (football team), an Indian club representing the Armed Services
• Sorbus domestica (Service Tree), a species of tree

See also

• Altruism, a principle or practice of caring for the welfare of others
• Goods and services
• Servant (disambiguation)
• Server (disambiguation)
• Volunteering, action taken to benefit others for no benefit to the one performing the action