Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A programming language designed for use at remote terminals.
Wiktionary
- n. computing An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
- Initialism of Acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Etymologies
- From the book A Programming Language (Wiktionary)
- A P(rogramming) L(anguage). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“APL is short for Advanced Product Line, which was the code name (however lame) that Sun and Fujitsu chose when Sun ditched its UltraSparc-V millennium chips in June 2004 and tapped Fujitsu to be its processor and systems supplier for midrange and high-end SMP boxes.”
“Code written in APL or Perl tends to be compact, but it is also generally undecipherable.”
“Anyone who would like to help feral cats in their neighborhood and stop them from breeding is asked to call the APL for guidance.”
“I could get #33 on a bumper sticker, but it would have to be in APL.”
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“APL, which is a subsidiary of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. of Singapore, last year swung five to 10 of its 120 ships world-wide away from U.S. ports, Mr. Sappio said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Container Shortage Frustrates U.S. Exporters
“The APL is a six-team Twenty20 tournament that is to be held in October on a converted baseball field in Staten Island, New York City.”
“The previous flybys by MESSENGER and Mariner 10 provided data only about Mercury's eastern hemisphere," explains Brian Anderson of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, known as APL, in Laurel, Md.”
“Others just are not big enough to accommodate the demands of its military clients, such as APL's portion of the Navy's TacSat-4 spacecraft slated for launch in August.”
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“Andrew Peller Limited ( 'APL' or the 'Company') is a leading producer and marketer of quality wines in Canada.”
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