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Api vs Topic - What's the difference?

api | topic |

As nouns the difference between api and topic

is that api is application programming interface while topic is subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

As an adjective topic is

topical.

api

English

Noun

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

    * * * ----

    topic

    English

    (wikipedia topic)

    Alternative forms

    * topick (obsolete)

    Adjective

  • (l)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
  • (Internet) Discussion thread.
  • (obsolete) An argument or reason.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
  • contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
  • (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
  • (Wiseman)

    Synonyms

    * subject

    Derived terms

    * topical * subtopic * off-topic * topic map

    Anagrams

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