APP
Translingual
Proper noun
APP
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
APP (plural APPs)
- (nonstandard, common in China) Alternative form of app
- 2014, “World Cup to live on APP in China”, in Xinhua[1]:
- World Cup to live on APP in China
- China's Central Television, jointly with the digital firm of Ali Cloud, Tuesday released the unique APP product that is authorized to broadcast the World Cup live. Besides TV and web, APP on mobile devices has become the 3rd platform to watch the tournament live.
- 2017, Renée Salmonsen, “The Dalai Lama launches free APP”, in Taiwan News[2]:
- The Dalai Lama launches free APP
- 2018, “China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry”, in Xinhua[3]:
- China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry
- China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently released a plan to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs for specific industries and specific scenarios by 2020, meeting key demands in the key links of the manufacturing industry, including R&D and design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance and operations management.
- 2018, Renée Salmonsen, “New APP to demystify Taipei Main Station”, in Taiwan News[4]:
- New APP to demystify Taipei Main Station
- APP available March 27 promises navigation, search function inside “Taiwan’s biggest maze”
Usage notes
This abbreviation is commonly code-mixed into the various Chinese languages spoken in Mainland China and nearby regions, where it is not pronounced as a single syllable but is instead pronounced letter by letter (/eɪ-pi-pi/) in the manner that acronyms are normally read in English, as is typical of short English words code-mixed into Chinese.
Etymology 2
Noun
APP (plural APPs)
- (biochemistry, immunology) Initialism of acute-phase protein.
Etymology 3
Noun
APP (plural APPs)
- (biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of amyloid precursor protein.
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
In mainland China, it is pronounced ēipīpī (letter by letter, A-P-P). Some speakers may pronounce it like English app.
Noun
(deprecated template usage) APP
- (computing, mobile telephony) app (Classifier: 個/个; 款)
- 以前你是不是也為了找個APP來提醒你,而四處下載,還浪費不少冤枉錢? [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2011, 許明元, iPhone 4S無禁忌活用術 X iOS 5升級即戰力, page 60
- Yǐqián nǐ shìbùshì yě wèi le zhǎo ge APP lái tíxǐng nǐ, ér sìchù xiàzǎi, hái làngfèi bùshào yuānwǎngqián? [Pinyin]
- Before, were you looking for an app that would give you reminders, and were you downloading all sorts of apps and wasting a lot of money for no good reason?
以前你是不是也为了找个APP来提醒你,而四处下载,还浪费不少冤枉钱? [MSC, simp.]
Usage notes
Chinese language users often consider 'APP' and other phrases which are written only in letters from the Roman alphabet and not rendered into Chinese characters to be English language words rather than loan words.
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