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Definition of "API" |
Application program interface: A software layer that allows a system to be programmed via a defined set of commands. / Application Programming Interface, American Petroleum Institute, Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, Academic Performance Index, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, Air Pollution Index, Animal Protection Institute, Ansal Properties Infrastructure, Association of Physicians of India, Application program interface, American Petroleum Institute, Angle Position Indicator, / In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) specifies how some software components should interact with each other In addition to accessing databases or computer hardware, such as hard disk drives or video cards, an API can be used to ease the work of programming graphical user interface components. In practice, many times an API comes in the form of a library that includes specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables. In some other cases, notably for SOAP and REST services, an API comes as just a specification of remote calls exposed to the API consumers. |
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