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         <h2>Application Programming Interfaces</h2>
-        <p>An Application Programming Interface (API) is blah blah blah. Use the API when the programming language you're using is not supported in an SDK. Please consider contributing that work to one of the <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs#Known_SDKs">Known SDKs</a>.</p>
+        <p>An Application Programming Interface (API) offers a way to use the capabilities of a service by using predefined functions. Use the API when the programming language you're using is not supported in an SDK. Please consider contributing that work to one of the <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs#Known_SDKs">Known SDKs</a>.</p>
         <h3>API</h3>
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