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web beacons

web beacons is the plural of web beacon.

Meaning of web beacon

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

Questions about web beacons

What is web beacons the plural of?
Web beacons is the plural of web beacon.

Words near web beacons in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: web beacons (page history and authors); web beacon (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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