application
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der. Latin plicō Latin applicō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin applicātiōbor. Old French aplicacionbor. Middle English applicacioun English application From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”). Equivalent to apply + -ication.
- derived from applicātiōnem
- derived from aplicacion
- inherited from applicacioun
Definitions
The act of physically applying or laying on.
- The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.
The substance applied.
The act of applying as a means
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
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The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or…
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.
- The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity…
A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- This application can connect to most social networks.
- Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course…
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.
A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject…
A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.
The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
Diligence
Diligence; close thought or attention.
A kind of needlework
A kind of needlework; appliqué.
The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda…
The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
Compliance.
The neighborhood
- synonymsoftware
- synonymprogram
- synonymapp
- neighborarray application
- neighboraspect-oriented application
- neighborasynchronous application
- neighborattribute-oriented application
- neighborclass-based application
- neighborclassless application
- neighborcommand-line interface application
- neighborconcept application
- neighborconcurrent application
- neighborconsole application
- neighborconstraint application
- neighbordata-driven application
Derived
app, applicational, application bundle, application domain, application form, applicationism, applicationist, application logic, application programme, application programming interface, application protocol data unit, application-specific, applicationwide, applistructure, bioapplication, coapplication, counterapplication, craplication, crapplication, cryoapplication, disapplication, enterprise application integration, field application engineer, inapplication, interapplication, killer application, malapplication, misapplication, multiapplication, nonapplication, overapplication, postapplication, preapplication, reapplication, rich Internet application, subapplication, underapplication, web application, weblication
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at application. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at application. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at application
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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