Application

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Business› Finance› Insurance

Auto Insurance

A request for insurance, giving information about the prospective policyholder.

The request for insurance, giving information about the prospective policyholder.

A form you fill out with information about you that an insurance company will use to decide whether to issue you a policy and how much to charge.

Business

Banking

Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), an oral or written request for an extension of credit that is made in accordance with the procedures established by a creditor for the type of credit requested.

Business› Finance› Insurance

Homeowners Insurance

The request for insurance, giving information about the prospective policyholder.

A form you fill out with information about you that an insurance company will use to decide whether to issue you a policy and how much to charge.

A signed request for insurance, giving information about the individual requesting insurance.

Business› Finance

Personal Finance

Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), an oral or written request for a loan that is made in accordance with the procedures established by the financial institution for the type of loan requested.

Business

Real Estate

The first step in the official loan approval process; this form is used to record important information about the potential borrower necessary to the underwriting process.

Healthcare› Medicine

Drug

Law

E-Discovery

An application is a collection of one or more related software programs that enables a user to enter, store, view, modify or extract information from files or databases. The term is commonly used in place of program, or software. Applications may include word processors, Internet browsing tools and spreadsheets.

A specific software program such as Word, Excel or Outlook.

An application is a collection of one or more related software programs that enable a user to enter, store, view, modify or extract information from files or databases. The term is commonly used in place of "program," or "software." Applications may include word processors, Internet browsing tools and spreadsheets.

Law› Intellectual Property

Patent

A written document seeking patent protection and filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or a patent office outside of the United States. In the United States, the application must include a disclosure of the invention that would, without undue experimentation, enable a person of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention; at least one claim; drawings (if drawings are necessary to understand the invention); and disclosure of what the inventor views as the best mode for practicing the invention. The claims of the application define the invention and the scope of the coverage sought. The written description and enabling disclosure are typically found in the specification portion of the application. The specification is the narrative portion of the application, along with the drawings, if present. The specification includes the description of the preferred embodiments or best mode of practicing the invention. It may include a summary of the invention; a description of the background of the invention, including prior art or the problem dealt with by the invention; and a description of the drawings. The specification may also include an abstract of the disclosure.

Complete papers submitted to the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking a patent including oath, specification, claims, and drawings.

Technology

Defense

(1) (Software) It refers to a process; usually implemented as a software routine, at the highest level (Level 7) of the ISO open system architecture. (2) (SDS) It refers to such processes as the Battle Management, Navigation, Network Control, and other high level functions which may originate or receive messages over the SDS Communication network, via underlying lower-level protocols. (3) Software designed to fulfill specific needs of a user. (4) (Acquisition) The process of selecting requirements that are pertinent and cost effective for the particular materiel acquisition and contractually invoking them at the most advantageous times in the acquisition cycle. 19

Technology› E-mail

Lotus Domino

A program that contains both data and programming to support a particular business need.

Technology› Programming

Java

Often used simply as a synonym for program. However, in Java, the term is particularly used of programs with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that are not applets.

Technology

Security

The use of information resources (information and information technology) to satisfy a specific set of user requirements.

Technology

Telecommunications

Software that performs a specific task or function, such as word-processing, creation of spreadsheets, generation of graphics, facilitating electronic mail, etc. Synonym application software.

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