UUID

See also: uuid

English

Example of a UUID:

b0cb1ad3-9067-4d2b-be20-dda4b0aa5f12

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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