Application

  • 1Application — Ap pli*ca tion, n. [L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See {Apply}.] 1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. [1913 Webster] 2. The thing applied. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2Application — may refer to:Clerical and bureaucratic processes*Application form *College application *Job application *Grant application *School applicationComputing*Application layer, in computer networks, used in describing a type of networking protocol… …

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  • 3APPLICATION — s. f. Action par laquelle on applique une chose sur une autre. L application d un enduit sur une muraille, des couleurs sur la toile d un tableau. L application d un emplâtre, d un topique sur une partie malade.   Il se dit, figurément, de L… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 4APPLICATION — n. f. Action d’appliquer ou Résultat de cette action. L’application d’un enduit sur une muraille, des couleurs sur la toile d’un tableau. Application de dentelles, de fleurs sur une robe. L’application d’un procédé, d’une découverte.… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 5application — noun Etymology: Middle English applicacioun, from Latin application , applicatio inclination, from applicare Date: 15th century 1. an act of applying: a. (1) an act of putting to use < application of new techniques > (2) a use to which somet …

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  • 6application — 1. The system or problem to which a computer is applied. Reference is often made to an application as being either of the computational type (arithmetic computations predominate) or of the data processing type (data handling operations&#8230; …

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  • 7Application security — encompasses measures taken throughout the life cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system (vulnerabilities) through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgradation,or maintenance of the …

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  • 8Application virtualization — is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized&#8230; …

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  • 9Application Enhancer — (APE) is a software program released by Unsanity for Apple s Mac OS X operating system. Application Enhancer provides a framework that allows third party developers to write haxies for OS X. It also provides a daemon to load haxies when certain&#8230; …

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  • 10Application performance management — Application Performance Management, or APM, refers to the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and service availability of software applications.APM can be defined as process and use of&#8230; …

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