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web beacon

web beacon noun: a web bug.

Noun

web beacon (plural web beacons)

  1. (Internet) A web bug.
    • The sole purpose of putting a Web beacon in a page is to cause a secondary transaction in order to set third-party cookies.2005, Craig D. Knuckles, David S. Yuen, Web Applications: Concepts & Real World Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 363
    • A web beacon is a small graphic image that is usually transparent (and therefore invisible to the user) and no larger than one pixel by one pixel that is placed on a website or in an email.2012, Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of web beacon

pluralweb beacons

Questions about web beacon

What does web beacon mean?
Web beacon means a web bug.
What part of speech is web beacon?
Web beacon is a noun.
What is the plural of web beacon?
The plural of web beacon is web beacons.

Words near web beacon in the dictionary

  1. web and pin
  2. web app
  3. web application
  4. web applications
  5. web apps
  6. web beacon
  7. web beacons
  8. web browser
  9. web browsers
  10. web bug
  11. web bugs

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