Usually means: Software designed for specific tasks.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word application:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. application: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. application: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. application: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. application: Collins English Dictionary
  5. application: Vocabulary.com
  6. Application, application: Wordnik
  7. application: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. application: Wiktionary
  9. application: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. application: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. application: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. application: Dictionary.com
  13. application: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. application: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Application (computing), Application (virtue), Application: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Application: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. application: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. application: Rhymezone
  19. application, application (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. application: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. application: Free Dictionary
  22. application: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. application: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. application: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. application: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. application: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Application: INSOLVENCY
  9. Application (disambiguation), application: Legal dictionary
  10. Application (disambiguation), Application: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. application: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. application: Netlingo
  3. Application, application: CCI Computer
  4. Application: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. Application (computing), Application (disambiguation), Application (software), application: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Application (disambiguation), application: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. application: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. application: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. application: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
noun:  The substance applied.
noun:  The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
noun:  The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
noun:  (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
noun:  A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
noun:  (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
noun:  The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
noun:  Diligence; close thought or attention.
noun:  A kind of needlework; appliqué.
noun:  (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
noun:  (obsolete) Compliance.

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