UUID

See also: uuid

English

Example of a UUID
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c

Alternative forms

• uuid

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.

See also

• GUID
• ULID