web·site or Web site

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web·site or Web site (wĕb'sīt')
n.
A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization.

USAGE NOTE The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to take unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email is gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there is an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.



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Web site
An organization's presence or an individual's presence on the World Wide Web. A Web site is a collection of Web pages, which are documents coded in HTML that are linked to each other and very often to pages on other Web sites. A Web site is hosted on a server by its owner or at an ISP. It may share space on the server with other Web sites, reside on a server dedicated to that Web site only or be on multiple dedicated servers. To qualify as a Web site, the Web server must be available on the Internet 24 hours a day. See Web vs. Internet, Internet domain name, ISP, HTML, HTTP and intranet.

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The noun web site has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
Synonyms: internet site, site



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