plural Apache or Apaches
ə-ˈpa-chēz 
-ˈpash,
-ˈpa-shəz
1
: a member of a group of Indigenous peoples of the southwestern U.S.
2
: any of the Athabascan languages of the Apache people
3
not capitalized
[French, from Apache Apache Indian]
a
: a member of a gang of criminals especially in Paris
b
: ruffian
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With tools like Apache Spark and Jupyter, teams can clean, prioritize, and process datasets, increasing the accuracy of their AI models.
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Chhandomay Mandal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Data engineers build pipelines to unify these sources, often using Apache NiFi and schema evolution techniques.
3.
—Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Named after the Apache leader Cochise, this rugged landscape of granite domes and towering rock walls has a variety of routes in a secluded setting.
—Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Cloudera Data Engineering handles large-scale data processing for analytics and AI applications, using a cloud-native service with Apache Spark and Airflow for orchestration, monitoring and troubleshooting.
—Robert Kramer, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Chhandomay Mandal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Data engineers build pipelines to unify these sources, often using Apache NiFi and schema evolution techniques.
3.
—Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Named after the Apache leader Cochise, this rugged landscape of granite domes and towering rock walls has a variety of routes in a secluded setting.
—Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Cloudera Data Engineering handles large-scale data processing for analytics and AI applications, using a cloud-native service with Apache Spark and Airflow for orchestration, monitoring and troubleshooting.
—Robert Kramer, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Apache
noun
plural Apache or Apaches
: a member of a group of Indigenous peoples of the southwestern U.S.
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: any of the languages of the Apache people
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