Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. application programming interface
- abbr. Asian and Pacific Islander
Wiktionary
- n. computing application programming interface
- n. pharmacology active pharmaceutical ingredient
Examples
“The Korundum package includes both a QtR ... ') 非常完整的綁定包括 KDE API 和 Qt API。”
“As of last week, the Wolfram | Alpha API is available.”
“Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the bi-directional protocol.”
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity
“Imagine the growth when the API is available to anyone that cares to use it?”
Google’s OpenSocial Provides API for Social Networks, Except Facebook
“Status API is part of that move — killing Twitter will have to wait for a while!”
“Using the available API from the British site, Handelaar led the development of www.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘API’.
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
bugs, features, mobile, wordie, wordnet, madeupical, tagging, merch, weirdnet, tag, meta, search and 83 more...
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Cromulent words to remember.
Words to use.
cerulean, quondam, mercurial, sacrosanct, Coachman, sundowner, risible, chassis, chaise, captious, mezzanine, Curse of the phar... and 75 more...
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Computer and Tech Words
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Technology
Tweets
Looking for tweets for API.
tonytam hey marky, sounds great, let us know how it goes Feb 13, 2010
marky thx 4 the advance on the list API, planning on working on API this weekend starting today. will keep u guys updated ;) Feb 13, 2010
marky thx 4 the advance on the list API, planning on working on API this weekend starting today. will keep u guys updated ;) Feb 13, 2010
marky happy 2010 peeps. finally getting over the holidaze back to life. hopefully i'll get to utilize the API even though I'll be pretty busy this month. Jan 5, 2010
tonytam Hi marky, telofy, let us know how it goes! lots of stuff on the way... Dec 19, 2009
Telofy A big thanks from me, too. ~ Dec 19, 2009
marky Thanks for the API guys. Funny, I was JUST thinking about it! Dec 19, 2009
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009