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progressive web application

progressive web application noun: a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.

Noun

progressive web application (plural progressive web applications)

  1. (web development) A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
    • The two things that are needed for a web application to become a progressive web application are a mainfest and a service worker.2017, Gaurav Saini, Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 200

Synonyms of progressive web application

Forms of progressive web application

pluralprogressive web applications

Origin of progressive web application

Coined by designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell in 2015, from the notion that web applications can progressively turn into native-like apps, following the idea of progressive enhancement.

Questions about progressive web application

What does progressive web application mean?
Progressive web application means a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
What part of speech is progressive web application?
Progressive web application is a noun.
What is the plural of progressive web application?
The plural of progressive web application is progressive web applications.

Words near progressive web application in the dictionary

  1. progressive tenses
  2. progressive verb
  3. progressive verbs
  4. progressive war
  5. progressive web app
  6. progressive web application
  7. progressive web applications
  8. progressive web apps
  9. progressively
  10. progressiveness
  11. progressives

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