url
Meaning
The address of a resource (such as a document or website) on the Internet.
Usage
Please copy and paste the URL into your browser's address bar.
The URL for the company's homepage is easy to remember.
A shortened URL is often used for sharing links on social media.
Etymology
The term URL is an initialism for "Uniform Resource Locator." It was coined in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and his colleagues at CERN. The phrase "Uniform Resource Locator" was created to provide a standardized, systematic way to address and retrieve resources across the nascent Internet. The word "uniform" indicates a consistent format, "resource" refers to any identifiable entity (like a document or image), and "locator" specifies its network address. As the web became ubiquitous, the initialism "URL" entered common vocabulary as a simplex term for a web address.
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