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An Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade).

[u(niform) r(esource) l(ocator).]


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Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. The address contains three elements: the type of protocol used to access the file (e.g., HTTP for a Web page, ftp for an FTP site); the domain name or IP address of the server where the file resides; and, optionally, the pathname to the file (i.e., description of the file's location). For example, the URL http://www.britannica.com/heritage instructs the browser to use the HTTP protocol, go to the www.britannica.com Web server, and access the file named heritage.

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Uniform resource locator or universal resource locator; an addressing scheme used by world wide web browsers to locate resources on the Internet.

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Uniform Resource Locator, an address widget that identifies a document or resource on the World Wide Web. This entry is here primarily to record the fact that the term is commonly pronounced both /erl/, and /U-R-L/ (the latter predominates in more formal contexts).



abbr. for uniform resource locator; a method for identifying WWW sites that is 'uniform', i.e. independent of any specific protocol. URLs have a convention of the type // of which would typically be http or ftp. Here is a fairly typical URL: a href="http://www.oup.co.uk/;">http://www.oup.co.uk/; in this case a href="http://www.oup.co.uk/index.html">http://www.oup.co.uk/index.html is the home page.

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URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

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Dansk (Danish)
abbr. - URL; adresse til hjemmeside på Internet

Français (French)
abbr. - (abrév = Uniform/Universal Resource Locator) localisateur de site uniforme, adresse d'une ressource sur l'Internet

Deutsch (German)
abbr. - (Comp.) universeller Quellenlokalisierer (URL)

Ελληνική (Greek)
abbr. - διεύθυνση στο Διαδίκτυο

Español (Spanish)
abbr. - (informática) localizador unificado de recursos, localizador universal de recursos

Svenska (Swedish)
abbr. - internetadress (uniform/universal resource locator)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
WWW服务程序上用于指定信息位置的表示方法

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - WWW服務程式上用於指定資訊位置的表示方法

한국어 (Korean)
abbr. - Universal Resource Locator

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(اختصار) مختصر : لعنوان على شبكه الانترنت‏

עברית (Hebrew)
abbr. - ‮מאתר משאבים אחיד/כללי‬


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