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hostname

noun

Etymology

From host + name.

  1. inherited from *h₁nómn̥✻ — “name”
  2. inherited from *namô✻ — “name”
  3. inherited from *namō✻
  4. inherited from nama
  5. inherited from name
  6. compounded as hostname — “host + name”

Definitions

  1. The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.

  2. A computer or other network device's Internet domain name

    A computer or other network device's Internet domain name; a fully qualified hostname.

  3. The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period

    The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hostname. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA