representational state transfer

English

Etymology

Coined by American computer scientist Roy Fielding in 2000.

Noun

representational state transfer (usually uncountable, plural representational state transfers)

  1. (software architecture) A way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet based on textual representations of Web resources and a predefined set of stateless operations.

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