UUID

See also: uuid

English

Example of a UUID

8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c

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Noun

UUID (plural UUIDs)

  1. (computing) Initialism of universally unique identifier.
    • 2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:
      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.

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