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application-specific

Syllables: ap·pli·ca·tion-spe·cif·ic

application-specific adjective: created or written for a specific application/usage.

Adjective

application-specific (comparative more application-specific, superlative most application-specific)

  1. (hardware) created or written for a specific application/usage

Forms of application-specific

comparativemore application-specific
superlativemost application-specific

Words formed from application-specific

  • application-specific integrated circuit

Questions about application-specific

What does application-specific mean?
Application-specific means created or written for a specific application/usage.
What part of speech is application-specific?
Application-specific is an adjective.

Words near application-specific in the dictionary

  1. application programming interfaces
  2. application programs
  3. application protocol data unit
  4. application protocol data units
  5. application software
  6. application-specific
  7. applicational
  8. applicationism
  9. applicationist
  10. applicationists
  11. applications

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