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pure names

pure names is the plural of pure name.

Meaning of pure name

Noun

pure name (plural pure names)

  1. A name that reveals no usable information about the entity it identifies.
    • A MAC address can be considered a pure name, as it gives no indication of where on a network the device can be found.

Questions about pure names

What is pure names the plural of?
Pure names is the plural of pure name.

Words near pure names in the dictionary

  1. pure laines
  2. pure land
  3. pure lands
  4. pure mathematics
  5. pure name
  6. pure names
  7. pure O
  8. pure quartz
  9. pure quartzes
  10. pure quill
  11. pure salvage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pure names (page history and authors); pure name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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