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API
Application program interface: a term for the interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services, defined at source-code level.
A software interface that enables applications to communicate with each other. An API is the set of programming language constructs or statements that can be coded in an application program to obtain the specific functions and services provided by an underlying operating system or service program.