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app
[ap]
–noun Computers Informal.
| an application; application program. |
Origin:
1985–90; by shortening
1985–90; by shortening
app.
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app (āp) n. Informal A computer application. [Short for application.] |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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app
/ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an app is often a self-contained environment for performing some well-defined task such as `word processing'; hackers tend to prefer more general-purpose tools.) See killer app; oppose tool, operating system.
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Main Entry: App
Function: abbreviation
appeals
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: app
Function: abbreviation
appendix
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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| app [software] application |
| APP approved |
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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