APPLICATION PROGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does application program mean? 

• APPLICATION PROGRAM (noun)
  The noun APPLICATION PROGRAM has 1 sense:

1. a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task

  Familiarity information: APPLICATION PROGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLICATION PROGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

application; application program; applications programme

Context example:

he has tried several different word processing applications

Hypernyms ("application program" is a kind of...):

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "application program"):

active application (an application that is currently running and in the foreground)

applet (a Java application; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface)

frame (an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently)

browser; web browser (a program used to view HTML documents)

natural language processing application; natural language processor (an application program that deals with natural language text)

job ((computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit)

word processing system; word processor (an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer)

editor; editor program ((computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data)

 Context examples 

An application program interface specification for connecting programs written in Java to the data in a database.

(JDBC Driver, NCI Thesaurus)

The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running.

(Operating System, NCI Thesaurus)