What is an Api?

Hi. About a month ago, I heard of this thing called api. I asked around and searched the developer hub but all the answers weren’t very clear for me. So, if anyone out there can tell me what an api is in simple terms, I will be extremely grateful.
Also, I think it has something to do with scripting, if it is, did it help you?
Thank you very much.

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Um, so does it mean that it is an interaction between things.

API stands for Application Programming Interface. APIs generally allow you to interact with something. Roblox provides us functions like, Instance:Destroy, Instance:Clone, etc to interact with its engine. Those functions are all part of the API. The Roblox API allows you to create games

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So it’s like built in commands?

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That is one way to think of it

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