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An API is a set of rules and ready-made computer code that lets two programs talk to each other and pass data, without one program needing to know all the secret insides of the other. App makers use APIs all the time: a weather app may ask a weather company's API for today's numbers; a shop's website may use a payment API to take your card. You can think of it as a counter in a shop: you ask for what is on the list, in the allowed way, and something comes back.
API是 a set of rules and ready-made computer code一套規則和現成的程式碼，that lets two programs talk to each other and pass data讓兩個程式互相溝通、傳資料，without one program needing to know all the secret insides of the other不用知道對方內部所有的秘密細節。app makers use APIs all the timeapp 開發者常常會用到 API：a weather app may ask a weather company's API for today's numbers天氣 app 可能會向氣象公司的 API 要今天的數字；a shop's website may use a payment API to take your card購物網站可能用付款 API 來刷你的卡。you can think of it as a counter in a shop你可以把它想成商店的櫃檯：you ask for what is on the list, in the allowed way你照規定的方式要清單上的東西，and something comes back就會有東西給你。
It is a tech word, used by programmers and in product talk. It is not the app you tap — the app may use an API the way a customer uses a counter. Write it in capital letters.
it is a tech word這是個技術用語，used by programmers and in product talk工程師和產品討論裡常用。it is not the app you tap它不是你點的那個 app——the app may use an API the way a customer uses a counterapp 用 API 的方式，就像顧客用櫃檯一樣。write it in capital letters要寫成大寫字母。
A completely different word spelled API is a Tibetan name meaning "grandmother"; that is not this entry.
spelled API拼法一樣是 API 的，a completely different word還有一個完全不同的字，a Tibetan name meaning "grandmother"是藏語的名字，意思是「奶奶」；that is not this entry這不是這個詞條指的意思。
組成Short for Application Programming Interface: the application is the program, programming is how we tell computers what to do, and the interface is the meeting point where two systems can work together. Unrelated: another API is from Tibetan for "grandmother."
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Apiname
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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, all steep and challenging.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。