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URL stands for

Uniform
Resource
Locator

A URL is a string that specifies the particular document or resource that a browser wants to access. It comes in several components and is fiendishly complex in terms of what is and is not permitted.

Generally, it comprises:

A protocal (such as http: )
A domain (such as www.google.com )
A path within the domain
A document at the end of that path
Parameters to be passed to any processing done in the fetch.

The above is crude an inaccurate, but gives the right idea.

The details are complicated.