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Word: application (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
  • computing 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.)
  • bureaucracy|legal A petition, entreaty, or other request.
  • The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
  • The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
  • The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
  • The thing applied.

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