"API" meaning in English

See API in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Khangtran2008-API.wav
enPR: ā'pē'īʹ [General-American] Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} API
  1. Initialism of American Petroleum Institute. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: American Petroleum Institute
    Sense id: en-API-en-name-fNgOTWur
  2. (international law) Initialism of Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions Categories (topical): International law
    Sense id: en-API-en-name-af-aMT8H Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: API donut, API gravity, API Service Symbol

Noun

IPA: /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Khangtran2008-API.wav Forms: APIs [plural], API [plural]
enPR: ā'pē'īʹ [General-American] Head templates: {{en-noun|s|API}} API (plural APIs or API)
  1. (pharmacology) Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: active pharmaceutical ingredient Categories (topical): Pharmacology
    Sense id: en-API-en-noun-DzmB97Gp Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
  2. (programming) Initialism of application programming interface. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: application programming interface Categories (topical): Programming
  3. Initialism of Asian and Pacific Islander. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Asian and Pacific Islander
    Sense id: en-API-en-noun-CZTrlHU9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 11 2 24 38 5 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 9 8 1 17 30 4 6 6 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 8 1 18 32 3 6 6 18
  4. (weaponry) Initialism of advanced primer ignition. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: advanced primer ignition Categories (topical): Weapons
    Sense id: en-API-en-noun-Ed6tHEi2 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
  5. (weaponry) Initialism of armor-piercing incendiary. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: armor-piercing incendiary Categories (topical): Weapons
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: PI Hyponyms: REST API

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.