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Concept information

Preferred term

application programming interface

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information An Application Programming Interface, or API, is a set of software instructions and standards that allows machine to machine communication-like when a website uses a widget to share a link on Twitter or Facebook.

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • API (application programming interface)

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/315205

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