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application

(1) A set of files that make up software for the user. The terms "application" and "application program" are synonymous; however, there could be a technical difference if both terms are used in the same conversation. In that case, "application" would refer to the complete set of files that have to be installed (executables, configuration files, ancillary data files, etc.), whereas the "application program" would refer to just one executable file. See application program.

(2) A specific use of the computer, such as for payroll, inventory and billing. For a list of major application software categories, see application software.

application
1. something, such as a healing agent or lotion, that is applied, esp to the skin
2. Logic maths the process of determining the value of a function for a given argument
3. short for application program, applications package
1.application - application program.
2.application - function application.


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But as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read it, and how to make the good uses of it which the story all along recommends to them, so it is to be hoped that such readers will be more leased with the moral than the fable, with the application than with the relation, and with the end of the writer than with the life of the person written of.
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Fairlie has nothing to add but the expression of his decision, in reference to the highly irregular application that has been made to him.
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If this is not a detailed letter, the reason is that I must soon be starting for the office, in order that, by strict application to duty, I may make amends for the past.
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