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(word root) bee
Examples of words with the root api-: apiary
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API

abbr.
1. application programming interface
2. Asian and Pacific Islander
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API

abbreviation for
application programming interface
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API

Asian or Pacific Islander.
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An API, or application programming interface, provides an interface between two systems that specifies how software components should interact.
There is a programming interface connector that ensures that digital data can be shared with existing enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution system programs.
The executive says the company will release a software developer kit, as well as an application programming interface. The SDK will allow developers to make apps with Bixby, while the API will allow Bixby to be integrated with other apps.
As per a blog post by Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, third-party developers could interact with the Facebook via an application programming interface through which the third parties extract the user's data, reported The Guardian.
In computer-speak, this "opening up" would involve something called an open application programming interface. This is a common software technique that allows different programmes to work with one another.
The G-API (GOEPEL electronic Application Programming Interface) only supported Windows-based systems before.
Saxo Direct, the API (Application Programming Interface) connectivity solution, provides access to Saxo Bank's own high quality cross-asset liquidity.
Saxo Prime's DMA functionality is built on MarketFactory's FX Aggregator, providing a single Application Programming Interface (API) for normalised connectivity to major market making banks and Currency Electronic Communication Networks (ECN).
Companies and application developers can utilize the Interact Xpress 10 multi-channel application programming interface and a free Mobile App SDK to add push notifications to their Apple and Android mobile applications.

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