Meanings
API1
plural APIs
- abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.
- abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of application programming interface.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Asian and Pacific Islander.
- abbreviationinitialismengineeringInitialism of advanced primer ignition.
- abbreviationinitialismengineeringInitialism of armor-piercing incendiary.
- abbreviationinitialisminternational lawInitialism of Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions.
Api2
- A mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet.
1 more example
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.
1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Tibetanཨ་ཕྱི“grandmother”
- EnglishApi
From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).
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