ALL meanings of daemon
dae·mon
D d - noun daemon a demigod 3
- noun daemon the guardian spirit of a place or person 3
- noun daemon any of the secondary divinities ranking between the gods and men 3
- noun daemon a guardian spirit; inspiring or inner spirit 3
- noun daemon demon (sense 2) 3
- noun Definition of daemon in Technology (operating system) /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning, later rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor") A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under ITS writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file. The advantage is that programs wanting files printed need neither compete for access to, nor understand any idiosyncrasies of, the LPT. They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by the system, and may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals. Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations (see demon). The term "daemon" was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronounced it /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called a dragon. 1
- noun daemon Greek mythology: demi-god 1
- noun daemon companion spirit 1
- noun daemon computer program: runs in background 1
- noun daemon demon: evil spirit 1
- noun daemon (in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans. 1
- noun daemon Classical Mythology. a god. a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit. 1
- noun daemon a demon. 1
- noun daemon (uncommon) Alternative form of demon. 0
- noun daemon (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. 0