How to Use application programming interface in a Sentence

application programming interface

noun
Definition of application programming interfacenext
  • Both of the bugs affecting users of the Google+ site this year were found on the same application programming interface, or API.
    — John D. McKinnon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The group found the posts by drawing a 1% sample of all posts from Twitter’s API, or application programming interface.
    — Time, 19 July 2023
  • The protest is over how the company plans to reshuffle pricing for its application programming interface, or API, which is the code that allows third parties to build apps.
    — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 13 June 2023
  • One of the rules requires vendors of electronic health records to adopt software — known as application programming interfaces, or A.P.I.s.
    — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The problems at Reddit are complex, but, in brief, the company decided to charge users for access to its application programming interface (API), which had been free since 2008.
    — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Businesses that sign up as members will be able to connect their existing tools to the data as well through a Web application programming interface (API).
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Nearly every page of Column’s website shows code that can be used with its application programming interface, or API.
    — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Her specialty was GraphQL, a query language at the heart of Twitter’s application programming interface.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Reddit users were outraged by the platform's plan to start charging millions of dollars in fees for some third-party apps to continue having access to the site's application programming interface (API).
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 12 June 2023
  • Uber and Lyft has been supportive, Cripe said, noting that Uber gives Cargo access to its application programming interface, which allows it to more easily sign up drivers.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Early this year, the Supreme Court will hear an important case that will determine the legal status of application programming interfaces under copyright law.
    — Charles Duan, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Clubhouse didn't limit how many rooms a single account could stream from at once, for example, so anyone could create an application programming interface to stream every public channel at the same time.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
  • If the data and insights need to be delivered synchronously, then APIs (application programming interface) can be leveraged.
    — Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • As an open-source software platform built on a set of application programming interfaces — the communication protocols between parts of a computer program — M.D.S. is now used by more than 50 American cities and dozens more around the globe.
    — Norman Mayersohn, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • To further simplify the shift, coders could take advantage of application programming interfaces (APIs).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
  • To boost revenue and reduce costs, Reddit plans to begin charging other businesses more money for access to its application programming interface, or API, the software that allows apps to talk to one another.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 15 June 2023
  • Twitter is ending free access to its application programming interface, or API.
    — Jon-Patrick Allem, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The costs—egress fees associated with data migration, application programming interface (API) fees and the like—have only become stiffer and more unpredictable.
    — Dave Mosley, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Another big piece of the project is use of Apigee software, which manages the application programming interfaces (APIs) that let different applications or microservices talk to each other and interact.
    — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The case is about the ownership and implementation of application programming interfaces (APIs).
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The group found different types of vulnerabilities depending on what level of access an attacker has to a voter's device or to the Voatz servers and application programming interface.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The group is demanding Reddit pay $4.5 million and cancel its plans to charge app developers exorbitant fees for access to its application programming interface, or API.
    — WIRED, 24 June 2023
  • The app, currently being rolled out to 10 initial customers, pulls carbon-emissions data through application programming interfaces—pieces of software that enable apps, platforms and systems to connect with each other and share data.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • The backend comes from the loyalty commerce company Points and its suite of services, including an expansive application programming interface (API).
    — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The backend comes from the loyalty commerce company Points and its suite of services, including an expansive application programming interface (API).
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2023
  • There also are plans for more features such as an application programming interface for developers to send messages between chains, and another API to query information between chains.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Open banking is a concept that allows third-party access to financial data through an application programming interface.
    — Paul Davis, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Joakim Skoog built an application programming interface using quantified and structured data for every character and clan in that fictional world.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • SharePlay will have an API, or application programming interface, a set of software tools that lets other app makers build those media-sharing experiences into their offerings.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 9 June 2021
  • APIs, or application programming interfaces, operate like open-source data systems that others can integrate into their own apps.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 30 May 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'application programming interface.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: