representational state transfer

noun

representational state transfer

noun

Etymology Coined by American computer scientist Roy Fielding in 2000.

1

Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software Usually 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.

Synonyms
REST

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