Definition of Application

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Application

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

The thing applied.

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

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.

The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.

The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.

The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

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Application Quotations

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

Application Translations

application in Dutch is aanwending, toepassing
application in French is mise en practique, sollicitation
application in German is Anwendung {f}, Bewerbung {f}, Verwendung {f}
application in Italian is proposta

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