application programming interface

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

application programming interface (plural application programming interfaces)

(computing, programming) A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, which makes it possible for software components to interact with one another.

Synonyms

API (abbreviated form)

Translations

set of routines, protocols and tools

Arabic: وَاجِهَة بَرْمَجَة اَلتَّطْبِيقَات f (wājihat barmajat at-taṭbīqāt)
Bulgarian: прило́жно-програ́мен интерфе́йс m (prilóžno-prográmen interféjs)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 應用程序接口 / 应用程序接口 (yìngyòng chéngxù jiēkǒu)
Esperanto: aplikprograma interfaco
Finnish: ohjelmointirajapinta, ohjelmistokehitysrajapinta, sovelluskehitysrajapinta
French: interface de programmation (fr) f, API (fr) f, interface de programmation d'application (fr) f
Galician: interface de programación de aplicacións f
German: Programmierschnittstelle f, API (de) f
Greek: διεπαφή προγραμματισμού εφαρμογών f (diepafí programmatismoú efarmogón)
Hindi: एप्लीकेशन प्रोग्रामिंग इंटरफेस (eplīkeśan progrāmiṅg iṇṭarphes)
Hungarian: alkalmazásprogramozási felület/interfész
Indonesian: antarmuka pemrograman aplikasi
Japanese: アプリケーションプログラミングインタフェース (apurikēshon puroguramingu intafēsu), API (ja) (API)
Macedonian: извршник m (izvršnik), приложник m (priložnik)
Malay: antara muka pengaturcaraan aplikasi
Norwegian: Application Programming Interface n
Persian: رابط برنامه‌نویسی کاربردی, ای‌پی‌آی (ey-pi-ây)
Portuguese: API (pt) f, interface de programação de aplicações f (Portugal), interface de programação de aplicativos f (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਏ੶ਪੀ੶ਆਈ੶ m
Romanian: interfață de programare f
Russian: интерфе́йс программи́рования приложе́ний m (intɛrféjs programmírovanija priložénij), эй-пи-а́й m (ej-pi-áj)
Spanish: interfaz de programación de aplicaciones f
Swedish: programmeringsgränssnitt n, API (sv) n, applikationsprogrammeringsgränssnitt (sv) n
Turkish: uygulama programlama arayüzü (tr), UPA (tr)