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Use

This title has several meanings

Use, usage, or utilization/utilisation may refer to:

Names

  • Use Lahoz, Spanish writer
  • USS Usage (AM-130), a formerly US Navy ship
  • Saint-Usage (disambiguation), multiple places in France

Language

  • Usage (language), the way in which it is employed by its speakers
    • Use of language by children, the subject of errors in early word use
  • Use of a word, in use–mention distinction
  • Radical 101, a Chinese character component meaning "use"

Law

  • Use (law), a purpose for property which a recipient is obligated to enable
  • Usus, the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it, an aspect of usufruct
  • Use of an unsold product, the subject of use tax
  • Beneficial use, a right on others' property
  • Use of a body part, animal, equipment, premises, or other property, the subject of loss of use
  • Use of a trademark, such as in nominative use, concurrent use registration, allegation of use, amendment to allege use, intent to use, and statement of use

Computing and telecommunications

  • Use of a variable, in a use-define chain
  • Use of a pointer, in use-after-free
  • Use of an external resource, an aspect of time-of-check to time-of-use bugs
  • Space usage, the amount of data storage consumed by a task
    • Disk usage, the amount of non-volatile storage space currently occupied
  • CPU usage, the relative amount of time during which a processor performed a task
  • Channel use, a quantity of signal transmission
  • Channel utilization, a normalized measure of network throughput
  • Circuit utilization, how much of a programmable chip is used
  • Usage, how much a piece of software is used, the subject of usage-based licensing
  • Usage, how to use a command-line program, the subject of a usage message or help message
  • Use, the tasks a computer can accomplish, such as in Linux range of use
  • Use, actions performed on a computer system, the subject of terms of use and an acceptable use policy

Engineering and design

  • Use, how something is used, the subject of use error
  • Use, the subject of use-centered design, a philosophy focused on goals and tasks
  • Usage, the subject of usage-centered design, an approach focused on user intentions and usage patterns
  • Usage, the subject of usage perspective development, a procedure that analyses and integrates user requirements

Other uses

  • Use (liturgy), subset of a Christian liturgical ritual family used by a particular group or diocese
  • Consumption (economics)
    • Resource consumption, use of natural resources
      • Resource depletion, use to the point of lack of supply
      • In situ resource utilization, a practice in space exploration
    • Psychological manipulation, in a form that treats a person is as a means to an end
    • Utilization, how much a piece of equipment is used, which can be quantified with the utilization factor
      • Rental utilization, quantification of the use of assets to be continuously let
      • Capacity utilization, the extent to which a firm or nation employs its installed productive capacity
    • A single use, the lifespan of a disposable product
    • Use of a perishable product, the subject of a use by date
    • Use, the subject of use value
    • Use, a purpose for a good or service, as in marginal use
    • Use, a quantity used to compute a stocks-to-use ratio
  • Utilization, the subject of Progressive utilization theory, a socioeconomic and political philosophy
  • Utilization of employees' time as billable hours, measured by utilization rate
  • Usage of a vehicle:
    • A factor of cost of usage-based insurance
    • A variable measured by health and usage monitoring systems
  • Use of physical artifacts:
    • Utilization or grabbing of objects, the subject of utilization behavior
    • Tool use by prehistoric people, the goal of use-wear analysis
    • Tool use by non-human animals
  • Utilization of land by animals, quantified by utilization distribution
  • Land use
  • Drug use (disambiguation) / Substance use (disambiguation)
  • Use, how a pharmaceutical drug is used, which may be off-label use
  • Use of a medical procedure, the subject of appropriate use criteria
  • Utilization of health care services, the subject of utilization management
  • Civilian and military use, the consumers of dual-use technology
  • Utilisation, an aspect of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage
  • Utilization, operating conditions for an electric circuit, grouped into utilization categories

See also

  • Use case, in software and systems engineering
  • User story, in software development and product management
  • First use (disambiguation)
  • USE (disambiguation)
  • Used (disambiguation)
  • Using (disambiguation)
  • User (disambiguation)
  • Useless (disambiguation)
  • Usability
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