URI
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈjʊəriːˈaɪ/
- Texting
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URI
- To share the webpage, simply copy its URI and send it to your friends.
Examples
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You can access the document online by following the URI provided in the email.
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I wrote up a blog of my concerns; if you want to click my URI, you can read them.
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Is it the HTML page that contains the <link> elements, or is it the URI pointed to by the <link> element?
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I used Plutor's method of inputting an image in Data URI format.
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Subscription for provisioning data did not return a valid MRAS URI.
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You publish a URI for the resource collection at http://somehost/FooBar and distribute this URI in an RSS feed and in online documentation.
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By treating William Shakespeare as a resource (as a non-literal value) and by assigning him a URI, we give people that hook.
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Literals are used to identify values such as numbers and dates by means of a lexical representation. Anything represented by a literal could also be represented by a URI, but it is often more convenient or intuitive to use literals.
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But I would argue that libraries and related organizations are well placed to mint persistent and reusable 'http' URIs for much of this stuff (and indeed some of them are now beginning to do so) provided that they drag themselves out of the old world of text strings on cards and into the new world of the Web and the URI.
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The URI directs you to the server where the image is hosted on the internet.
Synonyms
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6.5
A code that shows where a device or file is on a network
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2.8
An internet address that tells where to find a web page or file
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3.8
An address you type or click to open a page on the internet
A web address you type into a browser to open a page or file
Surface Forms
Etymology
URI is short for Uniform Resource Identifier, which you can think of as a 'uniform name' for something on the internet. So a URI is the address or ID that 'identifies' a webpage or file.