Discussing technical jargon isn't everyone's favorite pastime, but it's important to understand how the technology we use works, at least on a basic level. API is one technical term that comes up ...

A set of instructions by which an application program (a complete program that performs a specific function directly for the user) can access the computer's operating system. This term was viewed ...

As noted in an overview from Red Hat, the technical definition of an API, which stands for “Application Programming Interface,” is a "set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating ...