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killer application

British

noun

a highly innovative, very powerful, or extremely useful computer application; esp one sufficiently important as to justify purchase of the equipment or software

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There is a new killer application that SpaceX can dominate if it moves quickly.

From Barron's • Dec. 15, 2025

We have consumer devices available now, but given the maturity of the technology, it would take around that long to get to that type of killer application that you and I just talked about.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2022

Many scientists think that revealing new drugs and materials will be the first killer application of future quantum computers, which are being feverishly developed at universities and companies around the world.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2017

‘It’s quite difficult at the beginning of a field to actually have the correct idea of where the "killer application" is going to be,’ Ferrari says.

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2015

The killer application in the future will be to put an AIS receiver on a radar satellite.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2012

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