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- Applicationsearch for term
- An application is a program that runs on top of an operating system and allows the user to perform a very specific task. An application is the equivalent of a light bulb in a vaster building: the light bulb is part of the greater electrical network, but it illuminates a specific room with its own individual purpose, allowing the performance of a task separate from the other goings-on of the building. An application can have many different purposes. It can be a game, an accounting program, a media player, a word processor, a kind of graphics software, or many other kinds of functions. Applications can exist on smartphones like the Blackberry and the iPhone, on a computer, or other types of portable computer devices. Applications fill gaps in computer applicability. If a basic computer cannot meet the user's needs, whatever they may be, an application can be downloaded in order to solve that absence. This allows the device to stay flexible in a sort of manual updating process, and become personalized to the consumer's individual computing needs.
