A reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a host name (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Also sometimes referred to as a web address.
Source(s):
NIST SP 1800-15B
under Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (hypertext transfer protocol [http]), a host name (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Also sometimes referred to as a web address.
Source(s):
NIST SP 1800-15C
under Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A uniform resource locator, or URL, is a short string containing an address which refers to an object in the "web." URLs are a subset of URIs.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-15
[Withdrawn]
under URL