0 used to describe a product that is available immediately and does not need to be specially made to suit a particular purpose: --
The notions of function, set and algorithm were available "off-the-shelf" from mathematics and logic for use in computer science.
Clusters built from cheap off-the-shelf components represent an affordable solution for a large variety of applications that demand huge amounts of resources.
Establishing semantic links between the vocabularies using off-the-shelf ontology mapping tools.
In fact, the cut elimination procedures we consider are 'off-the-shelf ', while the explicit substitution calculi are well-established in their own right.
And it is extremely important that plan sponsors draft their own investment policy statements, rather than rely on off-the-shelf models.
Our use of technology has progressed from off-the-shelf software to the creation of customised interfaces optimised for work across media.
If phonetics-tospeech is chosen, an off-the-shelf speech synthesis program may be used and only an application-specific lexicon for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion has to be made.
It went on to protest that most contemporary architecture disguised its reliance on off-the-shelf elements.
