application

The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense

His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life.

1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography:

All that I have hitherto contended for, is, that whatsoever rigor is necessary, it is more to be us'd, the younger children are; and having by a due application wrought its effect, it is to be relax'd, and chang'd into a milder sort of government.

1693, [John Locke], “§43”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.

The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.

This application can connect to most social networks.

Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.

2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15:

application software
application software

(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.)

December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.

(bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.

The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.

(computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.

en-noun

application (countable and uncountable, plural applications)

aanvraag

the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense

приложи́мост

the act of directing or referring something to a particular case

kërkesë

a verbal or written request, especially for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar

молба

(bureaucracy, law) a petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter

Beantragen

the act of requesting, claiming, petitioning something

/ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən/

From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”).


application

Inherited from Middle French application, from Old French aplicacion, from Latin applicātiōnem.


application

French: application

From Old French aplicacion, from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō.