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U
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. A standard way of specifying the location of an object, usually a web page, on the
Internet. The URL for a web page would look something like this: "http://www.w3.org/default.html". Here,
“http:” indicates that a web page is being accessed, “http://www.w3.org” is the address of the server
containing the web page, and “default.html” is the file name under which the web page is stored on the
server.
V
Vector Graphics
(See definition for Raster.)
W
WAN
Wide Area Network.