API
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- noun
- /ˌeɪ piː ˈaɪ/
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API
- Yahoo has a nice API as well, but doesn't support longitude/latitude weather lookups.
- API for developers
- API access
- open API
And if you program on Microsoft products, the Win API threads is pretty similar.
- And if you program on Microsoft products, the Win API threads is pretty similar.
- So pixels, tags, snippets, APIs, all that stuff.
- So he used the open AIS API just to make a demo asking a question.
- Well, it uses an API called DirectX, right?
- Postman does essentially a platform for developing APIs.
- We had a bunch of API, some bit by us.
- All you need to maintain is the API or stability.
Examples
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The device has a RESTful API, so you can program your Spark to interact with the web.
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Though Foursquare is best known as a mobile app, it's an extremely API-driven company.
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That means like better mobile clients, more API usage and stuff like that.
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I can just operate with knowledge of the API, right?
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All you should need to integrate with an API is knowledge about the resources and a starting point.
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If it didn't have an API, well, we might look for another system that did.
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The Windows Phone 8 in-app purchase API gives you access to two types of digital transactions:
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Read every last piece of information, read the API documentation, read the tutorials and samples.
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Chatter has a very open API that talks to Zapier.
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The software developer used the API to connect the application with the database.
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Morphology
API = A + P + I
This is an initialism (Application Programming Interface); the letters are initials, not productive English morphemes, so learners cannot infer the meaning from the component letters.
Etymology
API comes from the phrase Application Programming Interface, a short name made from the first letters of those three words. Think of an API as a 'door' or set of rules that lets one app tell another what to do, so it helps different programs talk to each other.