native support

noun — 2 senses

native support

noun
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences a feature that already exists in the environment in which an application is run.

  • My plug-in allows the media player to use the existing native support to play videos.
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences a feature that works out of the box, without the need to install extensions, rely on external modules, or program extensive specific code.

  • My web-browser has native support for displaying SVG images.

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