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API definition - telecom
  1. A set of routines by which an application program can call specific programs or services of a computer operating system (OS) or network operating system (NOS). See also application, NOS, OS, and routine.
  2. A set of routines by which an application program allows another application program to work directly with it. See also application, program, and routine.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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