Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Informal A computer application.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
Etymologies
Examples
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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.
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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
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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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DAVIDCHARTIER 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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[body] end end class MyMiddleware def initialize (app) @app = app end def call (env) @app. call (env) end end use MyMiddleware run BasicRackApp. new
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
seanahan commented on the word app
Also application.
Edit: As in killer app.
January 21, 2008
bedraggled commented on the word app
appended
January 19, 2008