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Sometimes, in protest of jargon, it's possible to use the word in it's general sense, as suggested by it's composition. ``App'' is short of ``application.'' Originally, informaticists used that term to distinguish a general technique, for example as it is in a code library, from the application of that technique to a particular activity. Really, the term ``appliance'' would be more correct, but there's something aversive about thinking about sophisticated software, with a thing whose only feature is that it gets hot when turned on (a stove top), as the same thing. Of couse, ``app'' might be short for a whole number of other words that start with ``app-'' but there are already many things that are an application of a technique. For example, driving. That's an app. Suck on that jargonistas.