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UUID en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of universally unique identifier.
    • A good example of an informationless key is a UUID (essentially a random 128 bit value, guaranteed to be unique) which is typically displayed as hex string. 2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:

Forms

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UUIDs Number=Plur lexicographic
uuid alternative lexicographic

Relateds

GUID · ULID