appliance

 30 September 14:51   

    :from application, from applicationem (noun ) from verb ()

    IPA: /??p.l??ke.??n/

    # The act of or laying on, in a accurate sense; as, the appliance of emollients to a afflicted limb.

    # The affair applied.

    #: He invented a new appliance by which claret ability be stanched. --Johnson.

    # The act of applying as a means; the application of agency to achieve an end; specific use.

    #: If a appropriate advance . . . be taken with children, there will not be abundant charge of the appliance of the accepted rewards and punishments. --Locke.

    # The act of administering or apropos something to a accurate case, to ascertain or allegorize acceding or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I create the remark, and leave you to create the application; the appliance of a theory.

    # A computer program; the set of software that the end-user perceives as a individual article as a apparatus for a categorical purpose.

    application

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