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  1. killer appnoun

    A killer application.

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  1. killer app

    In marketing terminology, a killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program or software that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, a video game console, software, a programming language, a software platform, or an operating system. In other words, consumers would buy the (usually expensive) hardware just to run that application. A killer app can substantially increase sales of the platform on which it runs.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. killer app

    The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The term was then retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a similar role in the success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became commonplace to describe the World Wide Web as the Internet's killer app. One of the standard questions asked about each new personal-computer technology as it emerges has become “what's the killer app?”

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of killer app in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of killer app in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of killer app in a Sentence

  1. Sam Englebardt:

    Virtual reality may be the first killer app for blockchain.

  2. Chris Harrison:

    It's not that it's the killer app for VR.

  3. Richard Allen:

    We want to make this a killer app, where you put it on your phone and allow us to use your accelerometer, and we will deliver earthquake early warning.

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