application programming interface

See also: Application Programming Interface

English

Noun

application programming interface (plural application programming interfaces)

1. (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, leading to the ability to share data over a network.

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), 应用程序接口 (yìngyòng chéngxù jiēkǒu)

• Finnish: ohjelmointirajapinta, ohjelmistokehitysrajapinta, sovelluskehitysrajapinta
• French: interface de programmation (fr) 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
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• Japanese: 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)
• Norwegian: Application Programming Interface n
• Persian: رابط برنامه‌نویسی کاربردی (fa), 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝзвршник m, прѝложник m

  Roman: ìzvršnik (sh) m, prìložnik (sh) m

• Spanish: interfaz de programación de aplicaciones f
• Swedish: Application Programming Interface n, programmeringsgränssnitt n
• Turkish: uygulama programlama arayüzü (tr), UPA (tr)