It is an "application", such as "the action of applying" or by the "object applied", it is also a "formal or bureaucratic request" and today it is widely used as "software to install on an operating system", which is abbreviated as "app". Like many English words, it was borrowed from Old French, which it clearly incorporated from the Latin applico, as, are ("to join to, attach").
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