"applicative" meaning in English

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        "Having practical application; applicable."
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          "sense": "having practical application",
          "word": "applicatif"
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          "sense": "having practical application",
          "word": "aplikatif"
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          "sense": "having practical application",
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          "sense": "having practical application",
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        "Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result."
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        "(computing) Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result."
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      "sense": "having practical application",
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      "sense": "having practical application",
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      "sense": "having practical application",
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      "sense": "having practical application",
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