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Api vs Authenticate - What's the difference?

api | authenticate |

As a noun api

is .

As a verb authenticate is

to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

api

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) Application programming interface.
  • (pharmacology) Active pharmaceutical ingredient.

    • External links

    * (Application programming interface) * (pedialite)

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    authenticate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
  • To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.

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