Appliance

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Appliance may refer to:

• A computer appliance is a computing device designed for a specific function with limited configuration options. Examples include:
  • Storage appliance: Provides storage functionality for multiple connected systems, often using the transparent local storage area network (SAN) paradigm.
  • Anti-spam appliances, detect and eliminate e-mail spam
  • Firewall (computing), a computer appliance designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic
  • Network appliance, a general purpose router (computing)
  • Security appliance, a computer appliance designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic
  • Software appliance, a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware
  • Virtual appliance, a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor
• Home appliance, a household machine that uses electricity or some other energy input to carry out tasks
  • Small appliance, also called a small domestic appliance or small electric, a portable or semi-portable machine, generally used on a table top, counter top, or other platform, to accomplish a household task
  • Major appliance, or domestic appliance, a large machine used for a housekeeping task

• Appliance (band), a British musical group
• Appliance, a motion pictures industry term for a latex piece, such as false ears or other features, used by make-up artists

• Fire alarm notification appliance, an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system
• Fire apparatus, a fire engine or fire truck in British English

• Appliance, in medicine and dentistry, a device custom-fitted to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical or dental problem, e.g.:
  • Dental braces
  • Orthotics, an orthotic appliance
  • Prosthesis

• Renault Alliance, a compact car often derisively nicknamed the "Appliance"