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  1. adjective Exactly suitable; appropriate: an apt reply.
  2. adjective Having a natural tendency; inclined: She is apt to take offense easily. See Usage Notes at liable, likely.
  3. adjective Quick to learn or understand: an apt student.

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  • It is wonderfully apt, then, that he makes his professional musical debut in the show that marked his first step on the road to stardom.
  • If you do your Debian package management from the command line, you are probably aware of utilities that search the cache of available programs, such as apt-cache, apt-file, and dpkg. —  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?
  • If you do your Debian package management from the command line, you are probably aware of utilities that search the cache of available programs, such as apt-file, and dpkg. —  LXer Linux News
  • Not only is his name apt, but he works quickly and with great quality. —  Fashion World of SL
  • I updated your documentation, there was a 'typo' for the apt-get install update (it said upgrade), and also there was nothing in the —  TWiki.Codev
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  1. Middle English, from Old French apte, from Latin aptus, past participle of apere, to fasten.

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  1. from French apte = Provencal apte = Spanish Portuguese apto = Italian atto, from Latin aptus, fit, fitted, properly past participle of obsolete apere, fasten, join (whence the inceptive apisci, past participle aptus, reach after, try to seize), = Greek ἅπτειν, fasten, bind.
  2. from Latin aptare, fit, adapt, accommodate, adjust, from aptus, fit, etc.: see apt, adjective
 

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