Stand-alone
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Standalone software can mean:
  • Computer software
    Computer software
    Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

     that can work offline, i.e. does not necessarily require network connection to function
  • Software that is not a part of some software bundle
  • A program that is run as a separate computer process, not an add-on of an existing process, e.g. not a plugin. The term "stand-alone" has been used inconsistently: for instance, on the Apple Macintosh platform, the plugin code has often been referred to as being stand-alone,
  • Historically, a standalone program
    Standalone program
    A standalone program is a computer program that does not load any external module, library function, or program and that is designed to boot with the bootstrap procedure of the target processor...

     - a program that does not require operating system's services to run
  • A portable application
    Portable application
    A portable application , sometimes also called standalone, is a computer software program designed to run independently from an operating system...

    without the need for installation procedure.
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