Meaning of APL | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
2. Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, a Johns Hopkins University laboratory.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Initialism of assistant patrol leader.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
4. Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, at the University of Washington.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
6. Initialism of Adaptive Public License.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. Initialism of AROS Public License.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL.”

“The language APL presents a number of novel problems for a compiler writer: weak variable typing, run time changes in variable shape, and a host of primitive operations, among others.”

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