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uniform resource locator

Title English: 
uniform resource locator
Acronym English: 
URL
Definition English: 
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (commonly informally referred to as a web address, although the term is not defined identically) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably. A URL implies the means to access an indicated resource, which is not true of every URI. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.
Title Arabic: 
دليل الموارد الموحد
Domain: 
Information Technology
Subject: 
ICT Applications
InformationType: 
Term
SourceSymbol: 
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