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| UDDI—Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
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A
specification describing a network of information repositories on Web services
and how to build such a repository. |

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Unicode
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A
16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646.
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uniform
resource locator (URL) |
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Text
used to identify and address a Web site. |

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| Universal
Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) |
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A specification
describing a network of information repositories on Web services and how
to build such a repository. |

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| UNIX |
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An increasingly popular
operating system that runs on PCs, minicomputers, and mainframes and that
has many versions, customized for different machines. |

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| URL—uniform resource locator |
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Text, beginning with the particular
protocol to be used to transmit the contents of the address, used to identify
and address a Web site. |

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user
metadata |
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Data
that allows users to understand and access data in a data warehouse and
that may include information on how the data was transformed, its source,
and its timeliness. |

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