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software library
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collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software category
- Subclass of
- software component
- Part of
- software package
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- partially coincident with
- software package
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/libraries
- topic's main category
- Category:Computer libraries
- Commons category
- Computer libraries
- different from
- library
- inception
- 1947-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Illustration of an application which uses libvorbisfile to play an Ogg Vorbis file
In computing, a library is a collection of resources that can be used during software development to implement a computer program. Commonly, a library consists of executable code such as compiled functions and classes, or a library can be a collection of source code. A resource library may contain data such as images and text.
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