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app

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noun Computers, Informal.
an application, typically a small, specialized program downloaded onto mobile devices: the best GPS apps for your iPhone.
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to transfer software, data or character sets from a distant to a nearby computer or from a computer to a peripheral device
to put a computer system together by supplying a specific computer with appropriate peripheral devices and connecting them
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app.

 
1.
apparatus.
2.
apparent.
3.
appendix.
4.
applied.
5.
appointed.
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6.
approved.
7.
approximate.
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World English Dictionary
app (æp)
 
—n
informal computing short for application program

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History

app
computerese shorthand for application, attested by 1992.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary

app definition


  1. n.
    an application; a computer software application. : Ted's killer app can run circles around your old WordSun program.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary

app definition


application program

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
app
[software] application
APP
approved
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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