API meaning
What does API mean?
If you want to know the API meaning you should consider that this abbreviation can have several meanings depending on the context in which it is used, in this case this abbreviation can refer to:
- 1st Reader Passed parameter file
- A Profit Increase
- Academic Performance Index
- Academic Perofrmance Index
- Academic Programs International
- Accept Practice and Improve
- Accountable Property Inventory
- Accountants for the Public Interest
- Acquisition Program Integration
- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
- Active Pharmaceutical Item
- Administración Portuaria Integral
- Adobe Acrobat Plug-In
- Adobe Printer Ink file
- Advance Passenger Information
- Advance Programming Interface
- Advanced Photonix, Inc.
- Affluent Parents Index
- Aggregate Programming Interface
- Agri-Processing Index
- Agrupación Provincial Independiente
- Air Pollution Index
- Alaska Psychiatric Institute
- Alianza Popular de Izquierdas
- Alianza Popular Informativo
- All Parts In
- Alphabet Phonétique International
- Alternative Press Index
- American Petroleum Industry
- American Petroleum Institute
- Angkatan Pemuda Indonesia
- Anonima Petroli Italiana
- Antecedent Precipitation Index
- API Group
- Application Program Interface file
- Application Programming Interface
- Application Programming Interfacing
- Armor Piercing Incendiary ammunition round
- Aromatic PolyImide
- Article Periodocal Incollection
- As Per Instructions
- Asian / Pacific Islander
- Asian or Pacific Islander
- Asian Pacific Islander
- Asset Priority Index
- Associate in Personal Insurance
- Association of British Insurers
- Associazione Primatologica Italiana
- Assume Positive Intent
- Athletes Performance Institute
- Atmospheric Pressure Ionization
- Australian Pharmaceutical Ind Ltd
- Automatic Programming Interface
- Lotus 1-2-3 Printer driver
Analyzing the different meanings that API can have, we can see that generally the 3 characters that make up the abbreviation are equal to the first letters of the words that make up the meanings indicated in the list.
Does API always means the same?
No. The meaning of API does not have to be exclusively one of those listed above, as this abbreviation may have different meanings that have not been included. In other words, the abbreviation API may be used for other connotations not included in the list, since depending on the language or country where this abbreviation is used it may have another or other meanings.
Therefore, if you ask yourself "What does API mean?" you are probably referring to any of the names indicated, although it may be a different meaning according on the context or the language in which the abbreviation is used.
What are the abbreviations used for?
Abbreviations are used to shorten the name of something that is composed of several words in order to save letters when it is written. In this case the shorthand API serves to shorten any of the definitions mentioned above without losing the meaning. In other words, you can use this name in an abbreviated form and be understood simply without having to mention the full name.
Therefore, when using this abbreviation composed of 3 characters and starting with the letter A, the interlocutors will understand what means to without having to explain its meaning.
