active application

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   an application that is currently running and in the foreground

   Broaderapplication

Questions about active application

What does active application mean?

active application means "an application that is currently running and in the foreground".

Is active application a common word?

active application is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.