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Application Programming Interface

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An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of definitions of the ways in which one piece of software communicates with another.

Examples of APIs are:

The PC BIOS call interface
The Document Object Model
The UNIX system call interface
The Microsoft Win32 API

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