Implementation vs Application - What's the difference?
implementation | application |
The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
(electronics) A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
The thing applied.
* Johnson
* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
* (John Locke)
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.
As nouns the difference between application and implementation
is that application is the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb while implementation is the process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.implementation
English
(wikipedia implementation)Noun
(en noun)- Now that the requirements are complete we can move on to implementation .
- His implementation works, but it needs some fine-tuning.
Derived terms
* reference implementationapplication
English
Noun
(en noun)- He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
- His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications , internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
- If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
- I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .
- The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.
- December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .
- Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.