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Jigneshbharati Posted 5 years ago
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Underlying application

Within this strategy you’ll find bold commitments like separating data from the underlying application to provide greater flexibility, boosting the platforms that can drive more effective clinical trials, and giving people the right to see their own data."
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What does "underlying application" mean in the above?
https://www.lexico.com/definition/application
Is it no 2 or 5?
How do we decide which sense of the noun "application" is applicable to my example?

  

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Same answer as for . The application that "underlies" the data is the application that uses that data. It's just a peculiar way of using the word "underlying".

  • Same answer as for .
  • The application that "underlies" the data is the application that uses that data.
  • It's just a peculiar way of using the word "underlying".
  • CJ
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Same answer as for .

The application that "underlies" the data is the application that uses that data. It's just a peculiar way of using the word "underlying".

CJ

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