Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A computer application.
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- noun computing An
application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What finally fixed it for me was to re-install the applications using the package manager, by running: cd/data/app for app in *. apk; do pm install - r $app; done
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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What finally fixed it for me was to re-install the applications using the package manager, by running: cd/data/app for app in *. apk; do pm install - r $app; done
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
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CHARTIER At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010
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Next, we dropped flash_session_cookie_middleware. rb in the app/middleware directory. require 'rack/utils' class FlashSessionCookieMiddleware def initialize (app, session_key = '_session_id') @app = app
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At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
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Next, we dropped flash_session_cookie_middleware. rb in the app/middleware directory. require 'rack/utils' class FlashSessionCookieMiddleware def initialize (app, session_key = '_session_id') @app = app
RailsTips - Home 2009
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At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
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At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
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At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.
bedraggled commented on the word app
appended
January 19, 2008
seanahan commented on the word app
Also application.
Edit: As in killer app.
January 21, 2008
alexz commented on the word app
from the Jargon File version 4.0.0 circa 1996
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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."
March 13, 2014