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 best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“It would be disingenuous, however, not to point out that some things are considered as morally certain, that is, as having sufficient certainty for application to ordinary life, even though they may be uncertain in relation to the absolute power of God.”
—René Descartes (1596–1650)