Resource
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A resource
is a source or supply from which benefit is produced, typically of limited availability.
Resource may also refer to:
Resource
A resource is a source or supply from which benefit is produced, typically of limited availability.Resource may also refer to:* Resource , substances or objects required by a biological organism for normal maintenance, growth, and reproduction...
is a source or supply from which benefit is produced, typically of limited availability.
Resource may also refer to:
- Resource (biology)Resource (biology)A biological resource is a substance or object required by an organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Resources can be consumed by one organism and, as a result, become unavailable to another organism. For plants key resources are sunshine, nutrients, water, and place to grow...
, substances or objects required by a biological organism for normal maintenance, growth, and reproduction
- Resource (economics), commodity, service, or other asset used in productionProduction (economics)In economics, production is the act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor...
of goods and services, including- Natural resourceNatural resourceNatural resources occur naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by mankind, in a natural form. A natural resource is often characterized by amounts of biodiversity and geodiversity existent in various ecosystems....
, anything obtained from the environmentNatural environmentThe natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
to satisfy human needs and wants - Human resourcesHuman resourcesHuman resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...
(HR), skills, energies, talents, abilities, and knowledge used for productionProduction (economics)In economics, production is the act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor... - Resource (project management)Resource (project management)In project management terminology, resources are required to carry out the project tasks. They can be people, equipment, facilities, funding, or anything else capable of definition required for the completion of a project activity. The lack of a resource will therefore be a constraint on the...
, economic resources used in planning of tasks - Water resourcesWater resourcesWater resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful. Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water....
, sources of water that are useful or potentially useful
- Natural resource
- Resource (computer science)Resource (computer science)A resource, or system resource, is any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system. Every device connected to a computer system is a resource. Every internal system component is a resource...
, physical or virtual entities of limited availability (e.g., memory, processing capacity, and network speed), including- Computational resourceComputational resourceIn computational complexity theory, a computational resource is a resource used by some computational models in the solution of computational problems....
, resource used for solving a computational problem - Resource (Web)Resource (Web)The concept of resource is primitive in the Web architecture, and is used in the definition of its fundamental elements. The term was first introduced to refer to targets of Uniform Resource Locators , but its definition has been further extended to include the referent of any Uniform Resource...
, anything identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier which can be found in a certain location - Resource (Macintosh), data associated with a Mac OS file
- Resource (Windows)Resource (Windows)In Microsoft Windows, resources are read-only data embedded in EXE, DLL, CPL or MUI files.The Windows API provides for easy access to all applications' resources.-Types:...
, data embedded in EXE and DLL files - Resource (Java)Resource (Java)In the Java programming language a resource is a piece of data that can be accessed by the code of an application.An application can access its resources through Uniform Resource Locators, like web resources, but the...
, application data
- Computational resource