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| Service
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| Definition
| Application providing functionality to other applications. An essential part of distributed architecture, services are available on servers and interact with applications through an application program interface (API) with no human interaction. A service may operate in a tightly coupled (synchronous) or loosely-coupled (asynchronous) manner.
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| This C# Online.NET definition is from the Glossary of .NET / C# Terms.
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