daemon

  1. Noun.  A demon.
  2. Noun.  (Greek mythology) A lesser deity between men and gods.
  3. Noun.  One's inner spirit or daimon.
  4. Noun.  (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

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