Usually means: Software designed for specific tasks.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word applications:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. applications: Merriam-Webster
  2. applications: Collins English Dictionary
  3. applications: Vocabulary.com
  4. Application's, Applications, application's, applications: Wordnik
  5. applications: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. applications: Wiktionary
  7. applications: Dictionary.com
  8. applications: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Applications: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. applications: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. applications: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. applications: Legal dictionary
  3. applications: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Applications (computing), applications: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. applications: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. applications: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. applications: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)

(Note: See application as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (application)

noun:  The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
noun:  The substance applied.
noun:  The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
noun:  The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
noun:  (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
noun:  A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
noun:  (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
noun:  The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
noun:  Diligence; close thought or attention.
noun:  A kind of needlework; appliqué.
noun:  (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
noun:  (obsolete) Compliance.
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