Definition

API

initialism A-P-I

Short for “Application Programming Interface.” It is a piece of code that enables interaction between software to enable various tasks like obtaining real market data or execute trades

In a sentence

The trading application used an API to retrieve live Bitcoin prices from the exchange.

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