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Definition: smartphone app


A software application that runs in a mobile phone. When Apple introduced the App Store for iPhone applications one year after it launched the device, it coined the phrase "there's an app for that." Although "app" had been an abbreviation for application decades before the iPhone, app became synonymous with software for mobile phones. See app, iPhone, smartphone and smartphone features..