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bookmark

A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. See Favorites, bookmark portal and bookmarklet.

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bookmark

Computing

a. an address for a website stored on a computer so that the user can easily return to the site

b. an identifier placed in a document so that part of the document can be accessed easily

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bookmark [′bu̇k‚märk]

(computer science)

Any method of halting the processing of a transaction and holding it, as far as it has been completed, until processing resumes.

A code that is inserted at a particular place in a document or that is associated with a particular document so that the user can easily return to the specified insertion point or document.

A Web page location (URL) which is saved by a user for quick reference.

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(World-Wide Web)

bookmark - A user's reference to a document on the World-Wide Web or other hypermedia system, usually in the form of a URL and a title or comment string. Most World-Wide Web and Gopher browsers can save and load a file of bookmarks to allow you to quickly locate documents to which you want to refer again.