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Capable of running on two or more hardware platforms. For example, versions of software available for Windows and Mac are multiplatform as is software available for Apple and Android mobile devices. A programming language interpreter is very often multiplatform. Although the source code may be the same, the interpreter runtime engines are available for two or more hardware platforms. See interpreter and platform.

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