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See also: plug in and plug-in

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
  • Hyphenation: plug‧in

Noun

plugin (plural plugins)

  1. Alternative spelling of plug-in
    • 2019, Marc Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
      For Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms [] extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform.
    • 2020, Tejas Mayekar, Destroyed In Seconds: 10 Mistakes That Will Destroy Your Website, page 6:
      A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.

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Portuguese

Noun

plugin m (plural plugins)

  1. (computing) plug-in (computer program addon)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English plugin.

Pronunciation

Noun

plugin m (plural plugins)

  1. plugin

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.