API
- Also A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- Computers. application programming (or program) interface: a set of protocols used by programmers to create applications for a specific operating system or to interface between the different modules of an application.
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Contemporary Examples
For those with coding experience, you might also consider whether the data is available through an API.
FitBark will also offer an open API, and encourages developers to get involved with the platform.
The allegation that changes of regimes following the Arab Spring has rendered the API meaningless is untrue.
In the absence of a bi-lateral breakthrough, Israel should use the Arab Peace Initiative (API) to break the ice.
What's a little stunning is that this is the third time the League has tried to launch the API—the first time was in 2002.
Historical Examples
The habit of the tree is similar to that of the Api, but it is rather a larger grower.
British PomologyRobert Hogg
A dessert apple, inferior to the Api, and cultivated merely for curiosity.
British PomologyRobert Hogg
The tree has much similarity to the Api in its growth, and is a good bearer.
British PomologyRobert Hogg
Fruit, small, but a little larger and somewhat flatter than the Api, to which it bears a close resemblance.
British PomologyRobert Hogg
Suitable either for the dessert, or for culinary purposes; it is inferior to the Api and not a first-rate apple.
British PomologyRobert Hogg
API
- application programming interface
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