Application may refer to:
- A verbal or written request:
- Application for employment, a form or collection of forms that an individual seeking employment must fill out when seeking employment
- Patent application, a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent
- Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
- Function application in mathematics and computer science
- Application (virtue), a characteristic encapsulated in diligence
Famous quotes containing the word application:
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)
“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word “human.””
—Suzanne Lafollette (1893–1983)