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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

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Abbreviation for "Uniform (or Universal) Resource Locator." A way of specifying the location of publicly available information on the Internet, in the form: protocol://machine:port number/filename. Often the port number and/or filename are unnecessary.

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Entity Type

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Uniform Resource Locator (URL)S
possessive: Uniform Resource Locator (URL)'s
pluralpossessive: Uniform Resource Locator (URL)S'

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