0 used to refer to a computer that can operate on its own, without being connected to a network (= a number of computers connected together):
At first personal computers were standalone units on employees' desks.
These concerns are particularly important when searches involve complicated computer networks (as opposed to stand-alone PCs ).
Small or home offices often don't have space for stand-alone printers, scanners, fax machines, or copiers, so they end up with a multifunction device.
With standalone DVD recorders, media speed is less critical, since you record television in real time.
An end-user application is stand-alone software that installs directly on the user's system.
Some of the apps are inferior versions of the company's standalone programs.
Baylor is one of only nine stand-alone medical schools in the United States.
The move would break up the firm, leaving its corporate consultancy as a standalone entity.
He has written a few stand-alone novels and a couple of series.
This was done in a locked office on a stand-alone computer that was not connected to the local or wide area network.
His contribution is really a stand-alone research article rather than the introductory chapter one might expect from one of the editors of the volume.
By self-application, the partial evaluator can be used to compile and to generate stand-alone compilers from a denotational or interpretive specification of a programming language.
This corresponds to those situations where the constituents are stand-alone nouns that do not evoke, by themselves, a particular semantic relation.
But underspecification is not as loose as if constraints were stand-alone rather than incremental.
It started life as a single-span sonata but is formally unconvincing as a stand-alone work.
Naturally, to create a 'stand-alone' interactive performance system for a written score could be difficult, without any external devices or persons.
The article is, rather, a critical look at the legal notion of 'privacy' as a stand-alone fundamental right, rather than part of this social process.
