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provider
(1) A driver object that provides services of some kind to its client. In a driver stack, the provider in a provider/client relationship is closer to the Platform Expert. See also client. (2) In Quartz Composer, a patch that supplies data from an outside source to a composition. (3) In web services, an application that executes the logic that implements a web service operation.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Software; Computer
- Category: Operating systems
- Company: Apple
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