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name resolution

Converting a name into the address required by a machine or network. Looking up a phone number in a telephone book is a human version of name resolution. See address resolution, resolve, naming service and DNS.

(networking)

name resolution - The process of mapping a name into its corresponding address.

The Domain Name System is the system which does name resolution on the Internet.

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