App

3 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  APP
       Application Portability Profile
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems
     program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to
     create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend
     not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker
     parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and
     messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps.
     (Broadly, an app is often a self-contained environment for performing
     some well-defined task such as `word processing'; hackers tend to prefer
     more general-purpose tools.) See {killer app}; oppose {tool}, {operating
     system}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  app
       
          {application program}