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Host(s) may refer to:

In Christianity:

• Heavenly host, an army of good angels in Heaven
• Host (Holy Communion), bread in the Eucharist

In culture:

• Host (event), a television or radio show presenter
• Host (album), a 1999 album by the band Paradise Lost
• Hosts (novel), a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson
• Hosts (World of Darkness), antagonists from Werewolf: The Forsaken roleplaying game
• Rutan Host, a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who

In computing:

• Network host, in computer networking, a computer connected to the Internet
• Terminal host, a multi-user computer or software providing services to computer terminals, or a computer that provides services to smaller or less capable devices. Example: Xhost.
• Hosts file, a file that serves to look up Internet Protocol addresses
• Smart host, a type of mail relay server which allows an SMTP server to route e-mail to an intermediate mail server
• Web host, a company or individual in web hosting who offers web space and sometimes a domain name

In science:

• Host (biology), an organism that harbors a parasite, mutual partner, or commensal partner
• Host (psychology), the most important mental entity in someone who has Dissociative Identity Disorder

In other usage:

• Host (restaurant), a Maître d'
• Host station, a railway station on Melbourne's suburban rail network
• Host, Vis, a small island near Vis, Croatia

See also

• The Host (disambiguation)
• Hostess (disambiguation)

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