Application Program Interface

Japanese: アプリケーションプログラムインターフェース - あぷりけーしょんぷろぐらむいんたーふぇーす
Application Program Interface

… An interface is a way of organizing how the results of abstraction look from the outside. The way the OS defines how resources are presented to application programs is called an API (Application Program Interface). Using APIs has made it easier to write programs that are independent of the type of hardware. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "application program interface" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 抽象化の結果が外側からどのように見えるかを整理したものがインターフェースである。OSが応用プログラムに対して資源をどのように見せているかを定めたものを,API(アプリケーションプログラムインターフェース)と呼ぶ。APIを使うことにより,ハードウェアの種類に依存しないでプログラムが書くことが容易になった。…

※「アプリケーションプログラムインターフェース」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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