ALL meanings of yellow pages
yellow pages
Y y - abbreviation Technical meaning of YELLOW PAGES Network Information Service 3
- noun Definition of yellow pages in Technology (networking, protocol) (NIS) Sun Microsystems' Yellow Pages (yp) client-server protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a network. Sun licenses the technology to virtually all other Unix vendors. The name "Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications plc for their (paper) commercial telephone directory. Sun changed the name of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich. 1
- noun yellow pages a telephone directory that lists commercial organizations. 0
- uncountable noun yellow pages Yellow Pages is a book that contains advertisements and telephone numbers for businesses and organizations in a particular area, grouped according to the type of business they do. Compare White Pages. 0
- noun plural yellow pages a classified telephone directory, often printed on yellow paper, that lists subscribers by the business or service provided 0
- noun yellow pages the section or volume of a telephone directory, usually printed on yellow paper, containing classified listings of subscribers according to business, profession, etc. 0