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Service can refer to:

• Public services, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
• Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing
• Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
• Service (record label)
• Service (motor vehicle)
• Service Tree (Sorbus domestica), a species of tree
• Service Sector, the tertiary sector of industry
• Military service, a country's armed forces
• Civil service, career employees of government
• Domestic service, employment in a residence
• Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community
• Service of worship, a meeting for the worship of a religious deity
• Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
• A penetrant, as defined by a building code
• Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis

In technology:

• Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment
• Windows service, a background computer program in Microsoft Windows
• Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
• A program in the Services menu that processes selected data
• IRC services, a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks

People with the surname Service

• John S. Service (1909-1999), American diplomat
• Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet
• Robert Service (historian), (born 1947), British historian

See also

• Servant (disambiguation)