Maintenance

Maintenance may refer to:

  • Biological science
    • Maintenance respiration
    • Maintenance of an organism
  • Non-technical maintenance:
    • High-maintenance, slang expression
    • Alimony, also called maintenance in British English
    • Child maintenance, also commonly called "child support"
    • Champerty and maintenance, two related legal doctrines
    • Feudal maintenance, system of funding armies
  • Technical maintenance:
    • Aircraft maintenance
    • Maintenance, repair and operations
    • Car maintenance
    • Railroad track maintenance
    • Software maintenance
    • Property maintenance
  • General types of technical maintenance:
    • Condition-based maintenance
    • Corrective maintenance
    • Planned maintenance
    • Predictive maintenance
    • Preventive maintenance
    • Proactive maintenance
    • Reliability centered maintenance
    • Value driven maintenance

Famous quotes containing the word maintenance:

    War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.
    George Grosz (1893–1959)