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API¹

  • /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/ US

noun APIs · API

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of application programming interface
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Asian and Pacific Islander
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of advanced primer ignition
  5. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of armor-piercing incendiary

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of American Petroleum Institute
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions

Api²

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From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).

proper noun

  1. A mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet. Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed,

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: genus apis, ipv, apl, gpi, ipc, pollution, film, bee, polluted, clip, interface, bid, aci, rpn, ipr, ipy

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"API." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/api. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

API. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/api

Chicago

"API." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/api.

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@misc{api_2026,
  title = {API},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/api},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}