client-server

A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds.

This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case.

There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client.

Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.

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by illEATurHARTout April 12, 2004

client logic

A place where all the managers will fuck you with out lube @ the frist chance they get. And fire the only cool Manager they have

the 7th layer of hell

by Anonymous September 26, 2003

client number nine

1) Former NY governor Elliot Spitzer, who was given this designation by a call girl ring to protect his identity.
2)What one pitcher calls the opposing pitcher in the National League when he homers off of him. Cause he's his bitch.
3)A John who can manage to move his bowels 4 1/2 times during a single session with a prostitute.

1) Madam- Take client number nine tonight, and wear make him wear a rubber helmet.
Hillary (not her real name)- Good thing you're not running the witness protection program.
Madam- Shut your pie hole, and get on your back!
2) In 2001, Mike Hampton was client #9 to seven hurlers, but he was playing in Colorado, where I think prostitution is legal.
3) Madam- Take client number nine tonight, and bring some baby-wipes.
Hillary- **GROAN***

by wisk March 13, 2008

client-9

A high class john. Derived from the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

She wasn't a streetwalker, she was a Client-9 escort.

by d.s.o. March 14, 2008

Client zoned

To be client zoned is when someone who was thought of as a friend politely rejects another's interest in a friendly relationship by maintaining the formality of business etiquette.

I thought of the contractor we hired for our project as a friend, but when I invited them to coffee they clearly had client zoned me based on their reply that they don't meet with clients outside the office and would prefer to stick to e-mail for work communication.

by DrMeuser July 7, 2018

client natural selection

The process by which would-be difficult or annoying clients magically disappear in a Darwin-like fashion and only the fittest clients survive.

Thank goodness for client natural selection. Even after just one conversation it was clear that client would have been a real pain to work with!

by bobo76 November 21, 2013

Client Mod

cumcord

bro cumcord is the best client mod in the world

by saintwithataint December 12, 2021