: a short computer application especially for performing a simple specific task
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The builder of the applet has seeded into the applet the whole contrivance about the importance of video game playing.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The applet is giving you good advice about your resume.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The heater works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands but does not support Apple HomeKit or IFTTT applets.
—PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2025
However, AlphaSmart was already branching out to more general-purpose machines; the 3000 could run its own custom applets.
—Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
An Adobe Exchange panel applet streamlines the process of plug-in installation.
—PCMAG, 30 May 2024
It can be controlled with voice commands or applets.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024
These simple rules can produce very complicated patterns, and this brilliant Java applet shows you how.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2010
The Mouse applet showed the touchpad as enabled and had all options available—tap to click, two finger scroll, edge scroll, and so forth.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2020
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The applet is giving you good advice about your resume.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The heater works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands but does not support Apple HomeKit or IFTTT applets.
—PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2025
However, AlphaSmart was already branching out to more general-purpose machines; the 3000 could run its own custom applets.
—Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
An Adobe Exchange panel applet streamlines the process of plug-in installation.
—PCMAG, 30 May 2024
It can be controlled with voice commands or applets.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024
These simple rules can produce very complicated patterns, and this brilliant Java applet shows you how.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2010
The Mouse applet showed the touchpad as enabled and had all options available—tap to click, two finger scroll, edge scroll, and so forth.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2020
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applet
noun
ap·plet
ˈap-lət 
: a small computer application
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