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apps

apps is the plural of app.

Meaning of app

Noun (1)

app (plural apps)

  1. An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
    • A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2
  2. application (use, purpose; not a computer program)
    • SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
      PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.1995, The X-Files (TV series), Nisei (episode)
  3. (informal) application (to a college etc.)
    • “Ky—please don't take this the wrong way—I actually have to wear a dress from our line. You know, to show off my marketing materials on my college app. So, I'm working on it with Hannah.”2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases

Noun (2)

app (plural apps)

  1. (informal) appetizer
    • The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream[…]2007, Evelyn Spence, Explorer's Guide Colorado's Classic Mountain Towns

Noun (3)

app (plural apps)

  1. An appearance in a game.
    • That player has had ten apps this season.

See all 6 meanings of app

Noun capitalized: APPs

APPs

  1. (plural) plural of APP

Proper noun capitalized: Apps

Apps

  1. A surname.

Phrases with apps

Questions about apps

What does apps mean?
Apps means a surname.
What is apps the plural of?
Apps is the plural of app.
What part of speech is apps?
Apps can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near apps in the dictionary

  1. approximators
  2. approximeeting
  3. approxly.
  4. apprx
  5. apprx.
  6. apps
  7. apps.
  8. appstore
  9. appt
  10. appt.
  11. apptd

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apps (page history and authors); APPs (page history and authors); Apps (page history and authors); app (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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