"pure name" meaning in All languages combined

See pure name on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pure names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pure name (plural pure names)
  1. (computer science) A name that reveals no usable information about the entity it identifies.

Inflected forms

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