- utility program, utility, service program - (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"
--1 is a kind of program, programme, computer program, computer programme
--1 has parts: utility routine, service routine
--1 has particulars:driver, device driver; diagnostic program; input program; output program; sort program, sorting program; trace program