# Service > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Service > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Service.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service > Source revision: 1347787696 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Service** may refer to: ## Activities For religious activities, see [Religion](#Religion). - [Administrative](/source/Academic_administration) service, a required part of the workload of university faculty - [Civil service](/source/Civil_service), the body of employees of a government - [Community service](/source/Community_service), volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court - [Fan service](/source/Fan_service), a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans - Feudal service, see [Feudal land tenure in England](/source/Feudal_land_tenure_in_England) - [Funeral or memorial service](/source/Funeral#Memorial_services) - [Military service](/source/Military_service), serving in a country's armed forces - [Public service](/source/Public_service), services carried out with the aim of providing a public good - [Selfless service](/source/Selfless_service), a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award ## Arts, entertainment, and media - [*Service* (album)](/source/Service_(album)), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra - [*Service* (film)](/source/Service_(film)), a 2008 film - [*Service* (play)](/source/Service_(play)), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith - [Service (record label)](/source/Service_(record_label)), a Swedish record label - ["Service" (*The Walking Dead*)](/source/Service_(The_Walking_Dead)), a 2016 television episode of *The Walking Dead* - *[The Service](/source/The_Service)*, an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau - "Service", a song from the album *[Silver Sun](/source/Silver_Sun_(Silver_Sun_album))* by Silver Sun ## Economics and business - [Service (business)](/source/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)](/source/Service_(economics)), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum - [Service economy](/source/Service_economy), which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy - Service sector, the traditional [tertiary sector of the economy](/source/Tertiary_sector_of_the_economy), including: - [Customer service](/source/Customer_service), provision of assistance to customers or clients - [Domestic service](/source/Domestic_service), employment in a residence - [Table service](/source/Table_service), food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers - [Service system](/source/Service_system), or customer service system (CSS), including: - [Service design](/source/Service_design) - [Service management](/source/Service_management) - [Services marketing](/source/Services_marketing) - [Service contract (disambiguation)](/source/Service_contract_(disambiguation)), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system: - [Service-level agreement](/source/Service-level_agreement) - [Managed services](/source/Managed_services) - [Outsourcing](/source/Outsourcing) - [Service provider](/source/Service_provider), third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations - [Rest area](/source/Rest_area), where drivers and passengers take a pause from driving - [Motorway service area](/source/Motorway_service_area), also called services in the United Kingdom ## Religion - [Church service](/source/Church_service), a formalized period of Christian communal worship - [Divine Service (Lutheran)](/source/Divine_Service_(Lutheran)), the Eucharistic liturgy as used in the various Lutheran churches - [Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](/source/Worship_services_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints) - [Service (music)](/source/Service_(music)), a musical setting of certain parts of the liturgy - [Service (Tenrikyo)](/source/Service_(Tenrikyo)), a prayer ritual in Tenrikyo - [The son of man came to serve](/source/The_son_of_man_came_to_serve), a saying of Jesus ## Technology ### Computing and telecommunications - [Service (systems architecture)](/source/Service_(systems_architecture)), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment: - [Service layer](/source/Service_layer), a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture - [Service-oriented architecture](/source/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)](/source/Server_(computing)) - Service, local implementations in software: - Service, a program in the [services menu](/source/Services_menu) under macOS that processes selected data - [Daemon (computing)](/source/Daemon_(computing)), a background computer program in Unix - [Windows service](/source/Windows_service), a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system - [Network service](/source/Network_service) - *Radiocommunication service*, according to [ITU Radio Regulations](/source/ITU_Radio_Regulations) (RR) *Article 1.19* - [Telecommunications service](/source/Telecommunications_service), including: - [Internet Relay Chat services](/source/Internet_Relay_Chat_services) (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks - [Software as a service](/source/Software_as_a_service) (SaaS) - [Web hosting service](/source/Web_hosting_service) - [Web service](/source/Web_service), a software system to support interaction over a network - [Value-added service](/source/Value-added_service) or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including: - Services of an [Intelligent Network](/source/Intelligent_Network) (IN), for telecommunications - [GSM services](/source/GSM_services) ### Other uses in technology - [Service (motor vehicle)](/source/Service_(motor_vehicle)), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance - [Building services engineering](/source/Building_services_engineering) - [Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural)](/source/Penetrant_(mechanical,_electrical,_or_structural)), as defined by a building code ## Other uses - A collection of matching tableware: - [Tea service](/source/Tea_service) - [Dinner service](/source/Dinner_service) - [Cabaret service](/source/Cabaret_service) - [Servant leadership](/source/Servant_leadership), leadership reconceptualized as service to those below - [Service (surname)](/source/Service_(surname)) - [Service, Missouri](/source/Service,_Missouri), a community in the United States - Empire *Service* (1943–1961), one of the [Empire ships](/source/List_of_Empire_ships_(Sa%E2%80%93Sh)#Empire_Service) in service of the British government - [Serve (tennis)](/source/Serve_(tennis)) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis - [Service High School](/source/Service_High_School), a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska - [Service of process](/source/Service_of_process), the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition - [Services football team](/source/Services_football_team), an Indian club representing the Armed Services - *[Sorbus domestica](/source/Sorbus_domestica)* (*Service Tree*), a species of tree - [Universal basic services](/source/Universal_basic_services), a form of social security ## See also - [Altruism](/source/Altruism), a principle or practice of caring for the welfare of others - [Goods and services](/source/Goods_and_services) - [Servant (disambiguation)](/source/Servant_(disambiguation)) - [Server (disambiguation)](/source/Server_(disambiguation)) - [Volunteering](/source/Volunteering), action taken to benefit others for no benefit to the one performing the action --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service?action=history)). 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