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API

API

31 5.4
A trade group in the United States for companies that work with oil and gas
  • proper noun
  • /ˈeɪpiːˈaɪ/
translation icon : Instituto Americano del Petróleo
  • By carefully analyzing infrastructure failures during Katrina and Rita, API's Hurricane Evaluation and Assessment Team has focused on vulnerabilities.
  • API 650
  • API Hurricane
  • API Hurricane Evaluation

Examples

  • Puskar heads the API Hurricane Evaluation and Assessment Team's subcommittee analyzing structural failures during Katrina and Rita.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Meanwhile, API has been developing interim guidelines based on its new understanding of met-ocean conditions.

    Academic text (2007)

  • According to the latest report, the API has established new safety standards for offshore drilling.

  • The API plays a crucial role in promoting policies that benefit the oil and gas industry.

  • Industry leaders met to discuss how the API can advocate for sustainable energy practices.

Surface Forms

API main

Morphology

API = A + P + I

This is an initialism (American Petroleum Institute); the letters represent the name of an organization and are not decomposable into productive English morphemes.

Etymology

API in this case comes from American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. trade group for oil and gas. It is the organization that makes many technical rules and represents companies, so when people say 'the API' they mean that oil-industry institute.