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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation uniform resource identifier

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  • noun Internet Uniform resource identifier.

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Examples

  • If neither identifier or URi exist the passed string is used as a new identifier and a new random resource URI is generated.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A ballot measure will allow Rhode Islanders to cast their support for the work that URI is doing to fight terrorism and to aid U.S. soldiers -- who, remember, are still at war -- by voting "YES" on Question 2.

    Anthony Amore: Fighting Terrorism in Kingston, Rhode Island Anthony Amore 2010

  • A ballot measure will allow Rhode Islanders to cast their support for the work that URI is doing to fight terrorism and to aid U.S. soldiers -- who, remember, are still at war -- by voting "YES" on Question 2.

    Anthony Amore: Fighting Terrorism in Kingston, Rhode Island Anthony Amore 2010

  • For example, look at kitchen. technorati.com/event/search/vancouver (even the URI is interesting).

    Tim Bray - Microformats : “This could be big” Ben Barren 2006

  • For example, look at kitchen. technorati.com/event/search/vancouver (even the URI is interesting).

    Archive 2006-06-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • Resource in REST is identified by URL (he referred to as URI) which can be an application like bookcrossing.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Member 1021967 2009

  • It allow you to force the Yahoo’s API to accept long text althought you have “Request-URI Too Long: The server will not process the request because its request URI is too large.”.

    The Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

  • Not just things - give terms a URI, e.g. don't just say 'blue' - give the URI of that colour blue (give domain [of knowledge]).

    BCS Lovelace Lecture, Tim Berners-Lee Mia 2007

  • Not just things - give terms a URI, e.g. don't just say 'blue' - give the URI of that colour blue (give domain [of knowledge]).

    Archive 2007-03-01 Mia 2007

  • A Provider is identified by what Android calls a URI, it's a good thing to name data resources with short structured strings.

    Planet XML Tim Bray 2010

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