supplies [plural] : things (such as food, equipment, fuel, etc.) that are needed for a particular purpose and that will be used by a particular person or group. 1  They took a month's worth of supplies on the camping trip. 2  The town is in need of basic medical supplies. 3  a store that sells art/office/cleaning supplies.
The last and largest section covers end-user applications and application protocols, including general file transfer, electronic mail, Usenet, the World Wide Web, interactive protocols (such as Telnet) and administration utilities. 1  Name Systems and TCP/IP Name Registration and Name Resolution.
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.An API expresses a software component in terms of its operations, inputs, outputs, and underlying types.n such languages, the API is still distributed as a library. For example, the Java language libraries include a set of APIs that are provided in the form of the JDK used by the developers to build new Java programs.