Use

For acronyms/initialisms, see USE (disambiguation).

Use, usage, or utilization/utilisation may refer to:

Names

• Use Lahoz, Spanish writer
• USS Usage (AM-130), a formerly US Navy ship
• Saint-Usage (disambiguation), multiple places in France

Language

• Usage (language), the way in which it is employed by its speakers
  • Use of language by children, the subject of errors in early word use
• Use of a word, in use–mention distinction
• Radical 101, a Chinese character component meaning "use"

Law

• Use (law), a purpose for property which a recipient is obligated to enable
• Usus, the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it, an aspect of usufruct
• Use of an unsold product, the subject of use tax
• Beneficial use, a right on others' property
• Use of a body part, animal, equipment, premises, or other property, the subject of loss of use
• Use of a trademark, such as in nominative use, concurrent use registration, allegation of use, amendment to allege use, intent to use, and statement of use

Computing and telecommunications

• Use of a variable, in a use-define chain
• Use of a pointer, in use-after-free
• Use of an external resource, an aspect of time-of-check to time-of-use bugs
• Space usage, the amount of data storage consumed by a task
  • Disk usage, the amount of non-volatile storage space currently occupied
• CPU usage, the relative amount of time during which a processor performed a task
• Channel use, a quantity of signal transmission
• Channel utilization, a normalized measure of network throughput
• Circuit utilization, how much of a programmable chip is used
• Usage, how much a piece of software is used, the subject of usage-based licensing
• Usage, how to use a command-line program, the subject of a usage message or help message
• Use, the tasks a computer can accomplish, such as in Linux range of use
• Use, actions performed on a computer system, the subject of terms of use and an acceptable use policy

Engineering and design

• Use, how something is used, the subject of use error
• Use, the subject of use-centered design, a philosophy focused on goals and tasks
• Usage, the subject of usage-centered design, an approach focused on user intentions and usage patterns
• Usage, the subject of usage perspective development, a procedure that analyses and integrates user requirements

Other uses

• Use (liturgy), subset of a Christian liturgical ritual family used by a particular group or diocese
• Consumption (economics)
  • Resource consumption, use of natural resources
    • Resource depletion, use to the point of lack of supply
    • In situ resource utilization, a practice in space exploration
  • Psychological manipulation, in a form that treats a person is as a means to an end
  • Utilization, how much a piece of equipment is used, which can be quantified with the utilization factor
    • Rental utilization, quantification of the use of assets to be continuously let
    • Capacity utilization, the extent to which a firm or nation employs its installed productive capacity
  • A single use, the lifespan of a disposable product
  • Use of a perishable product, the subject of a use by date
  • Use, the subject of use value
  • Use, a purpose for a good or service, as in marginal use
  • Use, a quantity used to compute a stocks-to-use ratio
• Utilization, the subject of Progressive utilization theory, a socioeconomic and political philosophy
• Utilization of employees' time as billable hours, measured by utilization rate
• Usage of a vehicle:
  • A factor of cost of usage-based insurance
  • A variable measured by health and usage monitoring systems
• Use of physical artifacts:
  • Utilization or grabbing of objects, the subject of utilization behavior
  • Tool use by prehistoric people, the goal of use-wear analysis
  • Tool use by non-human animals
• Utilization of land by animals, quantified by utilization distribution
• Land use
• Drug use (disambiguation) / Substance use (disambiguation)
• Use, how a pharmaceutical drug is used, which may be off-label use
• Use of a medical procedure, the subject of appropriate use criteria
• Utilization of health care services, the subject of utilization management
• Civilian and military use, the consumers of dual-use technology
• Utilisation, an aspect of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage
• Utilization, operating conditions for an electric circuit, grouped into utilization categories

See also

• Use case, in software and systems engineering
• User story, in software development and product management
• First use (disambiguation)
• USE (disambiguation)
• Used (disambiguation)
• Using (disambiguation)
• User (disambiguation)
• Useless (disambiguation)
• Usability
• All pages with titles beginning with Use
• All pages with titles containing Use
• All pages with titles beginning with Usage
• All pages with titles containing Usage
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• All pages with titles beginning with Utilisation
• All pages with titles containing Utilisation