URL

n.

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).]

Web Page Address

Uniform resource locator or universal resource locator; an addressing scheme used by World Wide Web browsers to locate resources on the Internet.

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).

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is short for:

Meaning	Category
Internet shortcut ( Universal Resource Locator)	Computing->File Extensions
U R Lame	Internet->Wannas
U R in Love	Internet->Chat
U aRe Last	Community->Sports
Under Rolling Lights	Community->Media
Underground Racing League	Miscellaneous->Hobbies
Unfinanced Requirements List	Governmental->Military
Uniform Requirement Location	Business->General
Uniform Resource Locator	Computing->General Internet Computing->Networking
Universal Reader Line	Business->Products
Universal Republic Of Love	Miscellaneous->Funnies
Universal Resource Locator	Internet
Universidad Rafael Landivar	International->Guatemalan
User Really Lost	Computing->General
You Are Lovely	Internet->Chat
You aRe Ill	Internet->Chat
You aRe Loco	Miscellaneous->Funnies

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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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