Definition of "Apache"

Apache

/ə.ˈpæ.t͡ʃi/

proper noun
1. The group of languages used by any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
2. Apache, a town in Oklahoma, United States.
3. (computing, informal) Apache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.
  Quotations
  This list is necessary so Apache can set the right HTTP headers when a certain file is requested.
  2002, Daniel López Ridruejo, Daniel Lopez, Ian Kallen, Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours‎, Sams Publishing, page 62
  This section discusses the process of configuring Apache to participate in WebLogic clusters. Apache is a Web server, the most popular one, actually.
  2003, Scott Hawkins, BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit‎, page 59
  IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it makes more sense to use an established, proven web server.
  2014, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04‎, Sams Publishing, page 496
noun
plural Apaches
1. Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e., Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
  Quotations
  Away up at the sources of the Gila, where the pines and cedars stand and where creeks and valleys are found, is a part of the Apache land.
  1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, page 24
2. A person belonging to an Apache people.
3. (historical) A Parisian gangster of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4. (military) AH-64 Apache, a U.S. military helicopter.