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plugin

UK/ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/US/ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: plugins

A plugin is a small add-on that gives a program extra powers. Install a plugin, a plugin for the browser, disable the plugin.

It works inside the host program rather than beside it, which is what separates it from a separate application. Every plugin is also a way in, so an abandoned one is a security problem.

Definitions of plugin

  1. 1nounpluginA small add-on that gives a program extra powers.B2

    “The site broke after a plugin updated itself overnight.”

plugin is an add-on.

Practised in Computing & Code

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plugin in the wild

  • Thousands of plugins exist, both commercial and freeware, and many audio applications support VST under license from its creator, Steinberg.

    Virtual Studio Technology

  • Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, known as "themes".

    WordPress

  • Hundreds of community-developed plugins exist for monitoring specific services and hardware.

    Nagios

  • The project's plugin-architecture model influenced several derivative projects, including Icinga, Shinken, Naemon, and Checkmk.

    Nagios

  • In the NPAPI architecture, a plugin declares content types (e.g.

    NPAPI

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.