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 (biology), substances or objects required by a biological organism for normal maintenance, growth, and reproduction

• Resource (economics), commodity, service, or other asset used in production of goods and services, including
  • Natural resource, anything obtained from the environment to satisfy human needs and wants
  • Human resources (HR), skills, energies, talents, abilities, and knowledge used for production
  • Resource (project management), economic resources used in planning of tasks
  • Water resources, sources of water that are useful or potentially useful

• Resource (computer science), physical or virtual entities of limited availability (e.g., memory, processing capacity, and network speed), including
  • Computational resource, resource used for solving a computational problem
  • Resource (Web), 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), data embedded in EXE and DLL files
  • Resource (Java), application data

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