application

IPA: æpɫʌkˈeɪʃʌn

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
The substance applied.
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
(bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
Diligence; close thought or attention.
A kind of needlework; appliqué.
(computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
(obsolete) Compliance.

Examples of "application" in Sentences

He also sent me a next of kin application from the bank UTG.
Create application, bootstrap, and run $application = new Zend_Application (APPLICATION_ENV,
I can't honestly say how useful this application is as I don't own an iPhone, but it sounds like a good idea.
At the end of the term application period, key applicant data is verified against Sun's Human Resources records.
The cracks may have been caused by stress during the label application process, said J & J spokesman Greg Panico .
"When you get bonus money, you keep getting it annually as long as you keep your designation application active," Brawley said.
They can legally take anything you put on Facebook and use it for whatever purposes they wish - this application is there to give you control back.
In the technology world, companies view themselves as platforms for others to build on, and they publish what they call application programming interfaces APIs so others can easily tap their ecosystem.
It turns out that tucked within the Opera application is a directory called “unite” (on the Mac you can find it at Opera. app: Contents: Resources: unite) which contains a bunch of files with the .us extension (presumably for “Unite Service”).
"Men of science regard the discovery of a new fact in science as a higher attainment than the application of it to useful purposes, while the world at large regards the _application_ of the principle or fact in science to the useful arts as of paramount importance.