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representational state transfer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English

Syllables
rep-re-sen-ta-tion-al s-tate -trans-fer
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
29
Letters
9
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by American computer scientist Roy Fielding in 2000.

Usage

Inflected Forms

representational state transfers (plural)

Synonyms

REST

Questions

What does representational state transfer mean?
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.
Where does representational state transfer come from?
Coined by American computer scientist Roy Fielding in 2000.

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