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Daemon
English
Noun
daemon
(
plural
daemons
)
(
Commonwealth English
) An older spelling of
demon
.
(
Greek mythology
) A
deity
.
(
computer science
) A
program
running as a background process , performing tasks such as serving files to remote clients.
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