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:
“Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)