Noun

(en noun)

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.

(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

(slang) Marijuana.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

The thing applied.

* Johnson

He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.

* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography

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.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

* (John Locke)

If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.

I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .

The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.

(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.)

This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.

December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .

(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.

Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.