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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal A computer application.

Wiktionary

  1. n. computing An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.

Etymologies

  1. From application. (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for application. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.”

    VersionTracker: Mac OS X

  • “DAVIDCHARTIER 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

  • “[body] end end class MyMiddleware def initialize (app) @app = app end def call (env) @app. call (env) end end use MyMiddleware run BasicRackApp. new”

    Sun Bloggers

  • “Well, strictly speaking the term app is short for the application which refers to any piece of software that works on a software system of sorts.”

    Pocket-lint

  • “Microsoft on Tuesday filed its latest argument with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which included the opinions of a linguistic expert who supported the software giant's argument that the term "app store" was generic and shouldn't be trademarked by Apple.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Apple, Microsoft Hire Linguists in App Feud

  • “Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. have both hired linguists to serve as experts in the tech titan's ongoing battle over whether or not the government can grant a trademark for the term "app store.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Apple, Microsoft Hire Linguists in App Feud

  • “Apple also argued that its competitors have several alternatives to using the term "app store," pointing to the fact that competitors use terms such as "marketplace" to refer to central download locations for mobile applications.”

    The Washington Post: The Circuit: Net neutrality vote delayed, Supreme Court rules in FOIA case, Apple to launch iPad 2

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