Default
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Default may refer to:
- Default (law)Default (law)In law, a default is the failure to do something required by law or to appearat a required time in legal proceedings.In the United States, for example, when a party has failed to file meaningful response to pleadings within...
, the failure to do something required by law- Default judgmentDefault judgmentDefault judgment is a binding judgment in favor of either party based on some failure to take action by the other party. Most often, it is a judgment in favor of a plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons or has failed to appear before a court of law...
- Default judgment
- Default (finance)Default (finance)In finance, default occurs when a debtor has not met his or her legal obligations according to the debt contract, e.g. has not made a scheduled payment, or has violated a loan covenant of the debt contract. A default is the failure to pay back a loan. Default may occur if the debtor is either...
, failure to satisfy the terms of a loan obligation or to pay back a loan - Default (computer science)Default (computer science)A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or value automatically assigned to a software application, computer program or device, outside of user intervention. Such settings are also called presets, especially for electronic devices...
, a preset setting or value - Default (band)Default (band)Default is a Canadian post-grunge/alternative rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Since forming in 1999 they have released four albums, and have sold more than a million records...
, a Canadian post-grunge and alternative rock band - defaults (software)Defaults (software)defaults is a command line utility that manipulates plist files. defaults is present in the Mac OS X and GNUstep operating systems, and it first appeared in the NeXTStep operating system upon which both of the aforementioned systems are based...
, a command line utility for plist (preference) files - Default logicDefault logicDefault logic is a non-monotonic logic proposed by Raymond Reiter to formalize reasoning with default assumptions.Default logic can express facts like “by default, something is true”; by contrast, standard logic can only express that something is true or that something is false...
, a non-monotonic logic proposed by Raymond Reiter