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 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)
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)