clement

adj 1: (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather"

[ant: {inclement}]

2: (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a

more clement judge reduced the sentence" [ant: {inclement}]

client

A computer system or process that requests a

service of another computer system or process (a "{server}")

using some kind of {protocol} and accepts the server's

responses. A client is part of a {client-server} software

architecture.

For example, a {workstation} requesting the contents of a file

from a {file server} is a client of the file server.

(1997-10-27)