UUID has various meanings in the Computing category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of UUID in Computing.
A Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128 bit, unique identifier generated by the local system upon request or loaded from external sources. A UUID can be used for multiple purposes, from tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime, to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network, particularly as part of an ASN.
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