Meaning

1 senses
  1. A small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser.

    Holonyms: app, application, program

    Applet, Minianwendung

    а́пплетápplet, а́плетáplet

    апле́тaplét

    a Java application; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface

Examples

2 sentences
  1. My first Java applet was hello world.

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  2. This is how you execute CLSID applet commands.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application:
Русский
By meaning 1
a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application:

Origin

From app + -let, but perhaps also influenced by Apple (the term originated in AppleScript)

From app + -let, but perhaps also influenced by Apple (the term originated in AppleScript).

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Forms

plural: applets
Singularapplet
Pluralapplets

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedservlet
Derivedcrapplet

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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