Middleware

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Software that connects two or more software components or applications. It is another term for an application programmer interface or API, and it allows programmers to access lower- or higher-level services by providing an intermediary layer that includes function calls to the services.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

System85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Middlewares
possessive: Middleware's
pluralpossessive: Middlewares'

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