Applications
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
application/aplɪˈkeɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a formal request to an authority.
- 2 the action of putting something into operation.
■ practical use or relevance.
- 3 the action of applying something to a surface.
- 4 sustained effort.
- 5 Computing a program or piece of software designed to fulfil a particular purpose.
– derivatives
applicational adjective.
applicational adjective.
'Applications' also found in these Oxford entries:
application programming interface
- ASP
- authoring
- client
- connectivity
- hotlink
- middleware
- multivalent
- oversubscribed
- Perl
- Prolog
- set theory
- sound card
- thoria
- undersubscribed
