API

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.
  2. Initialism of application programming interface.
  3. Initialism of Asian and Pacific Islander.
  4. Initialism of advanced primer ignition.
  5. Initialism of armor-piercing incendiary.
name
  1. Initialism of American Petroleum Institute.
  2. Initialism of Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions.
name
  1. A mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet.

Pronunciation

ā'pē'īʹ /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Khangtran2008-API.wav

Word forms

API APIs

Etymology

From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).

Related words

AP I
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