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app
1[ ap ]
noun
- Digital Technology. a software application, often a small, specialized program for mobile devices:
You’ll find numerous free photo editing apps in the app store on your smartphone.
The word processing app that comes with the laptop isn’t adequate for our publishing needs.
- an application; a form to be filled out by an applicant:
I'm working on my college apps.
app
2[ ap ]
noun
- Informal. an appetizer served before a meal.
app.
3abbreviation for
- apparatus.
- apparent.
- appendix.
- applied.
- appointed.
- approved.
- approximate.
app
/ æ /
noun
- informal.computing short for application program
Word History and Origins
Origin of app1
Origin of app2
Example Sentences
These offerings allow restaurant chains to build delivery ordering into their own websites and apps, so customers can use their technology and couriers without having to go to the Uber or DoorDash apps or website.
In January, serious IT problems at Barclays affected the bank's app and online banking.
The app’s 3.5 million global users post photos of fauna and flora from anywhere fauna and flora are found — urban parks, suburban backyards, mountaintops.
The interview comes a month after Mr Goldberg published a story about being added to a secret group chat on the encrypted texting app Signal.
I spoke to one of the organisers on a messaging app.
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