noun

• Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.

  ‘That is where data access middleware and on-line application development systems come in.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They have to have the right OS, middleware and application software installed.’
  • ‘This claim covers the operating system wars, desktop software and middleware.’
  • ‘It is possible to compress the software by developing slimmer middleware and writing more compact applications.’
  • ‘People are just not going to agree on hardware, operating systems, programming languages, databases, middleware and lots of other things.’