API

See also: api, Api, and api-

English

Noun

API (plural APIs)

1. (pharmacology) Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.
2. (programming) Initialism of application programming interface.

Hypernyms

• PI

Hyponyms

• REST API

Translations

application programming interface

• German: API (de) f
• Greek: διεπαφή προγραμματισμού εφαρμογών f (diepafí programmatismoú efarmogón)
• Hindi: एप्लीकेशन प्रोग्रामिंग इंटरफेस (eplīkeśan progrāmiṅg iṇṭarphes)
• Macedonian: извршник m (izvršnik), приложник m (priložnik)
• Persian: ای‌پی‌آی (ey-pi-ây)
• Portuguese: API (pt) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Punjabi: ਏ੦ਪੀ੦ਆਈ m (e.pī.āē)
• Russian: эй-пи-а́й m (ej-pi-áj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝзвршник m, прѝложник m

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

• Turkish: UPA (tr)

Proper noun

API

1. Initialism of American Petroleum Institute.

Derived terms

• API gravity

Further reading

• Application programming interface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Active pharmaceutical ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AIP, IAP, IPA, PIA, pia

---

French

Etymology 1

Proper noun

API m

1. Initialism of alphabet phonétique international: IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “depends on which sense of API is intended”)

Noun

API m (plural API)

1. API

---

Latin

Proper noun

API n (indeclinable)

1. Initialism of Alphabētum Phōnēticum Internātiōnāle (“International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)”).

---

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English API.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa ˌpe ˈi/

Noun

API f (plural s)

1. (programming) API (application programming interface)