Application Programming Interface (API). An API is a definition of an interface used for communication between two different software modules. The advantage of an API is it hides the complexity of a module from other programs wanting to use its services. In addition it allows the integration of two modules to be controlled and limited to the API. This means an update to either modules has no effect on the interaction between them as long as both still adhere to the API.

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