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: application sense 3
a word processing app
especially
: an application designed for a mobile device (such as a smartphone)
Health-insurance companies and government officials alike are drawn to the ability of smartphone apps to reach tough-to-access patients, to effect long-term lifestyle changes, and to do it all at a very low cost. —
Marcellus Hall
see also killer app
Marcellus Hall 2
informal
: appetizer
… the hidden video monitors that tell the cooks when the V.I.P.'s have finished their apps …—Thomas McNamee
Thomas McNamee1
apparatus
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appendix
3
appliance
Examples of app in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebDavid Pierce, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2024
Driving the news: Enigma Labs is a startup that developed an app where users can upload videos of odd sightings in the sky to share with others.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Waymo now conducts more than 100,000 weekly trips for passengers in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, who can hail their robotaxis via the Waymo One app.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
Just as romance has become privatized, with more people dating strangers from apps than acquaintances from their network, researchers told me that there’s been a shift toward privatized friendship too.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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Noun
There’s the teacher who spends hours copying and pasting data between enterprise apps; the Shopify sellers who spend too much time looking up order numbers and then pasting them into customer-support emails.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2024
Driving the news: Enigma Labs is a startup that developed an app where users can upload videos of odd sightings in the sky to share with others.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Waymo now conducts more than 100,000 weekly trips for passengers in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, who can hail their robotaxis via the Waymo One app.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
Just as romance has become privatized, with more people dating strangers from apps than acquaintances from their network, researchers told me that there’s been a shift toward privatized friendship too.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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“App.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/app. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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