WordNet gives four main senses for the English noun object:
a physical entity; something that is within the grasp of the senses;
an aim, target or objective — see Object (task);
a grammatical Object — either a direct object or an indirect object
the focus of cognitions or feelings.
Some specialized meanings are as follows:
In computer science:
An object is a language-supported mechanism for binding data tightly with methods that ...
Duplication can give fault-tolerance in three ways:
Replication: Providing multiple identical instances of the same system, directing tasks or requests to all of them in parallel, and choosing the correct result on the basis of a quorum;
Redundancy: Providing multiple identical instances of the same system and switching to one of the remaining instances in case of a failure (fall-back or backup);
Diversity: Providing multiple different implementations of the same specification, and using them like rep ...
