namespace
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Microsoft Active Directory
A name, or group of names, that is defined according to some naming convention; any bounded area in which a given name can be resolved. Active Directory is primarily a namespace, as is any directory service. A telephone directory is also a namespace. The Internet uses a hierarchical namespace that partitions names into categories known as top-level domains such as .com, .edu, and .gov, which are at the top of the hierarchy.
See also: hierarchical namespace
Defines the scope of AD, based on the hierarchical nature of DNS Namespace defines the structure of the database and the relationship between its objects, based on an X.500 naming scheme that identifies containers when naming objects.
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Microsoft Exchange 2003
A logical collection of properties in an Exchange store schema. A namespace serves to group related properties together for easy property discovery and, more importantly, to keep the property names unique. A Domain Name System (DNS) name creates a namespace; for example, microsoft.com. [Exchange 2003]
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Amazon Web Services
An abstract container that provides context for the items (names, or technical terms, or words) it holds, and allows disambiguation of homonym items residing in different namespaces.
- — AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary retrieved 2014-05-26
Java
The area of a program in which particular identifiers are visible. Java uses packages to provide namespaces, and its visibility rules - private, package, protected, public - variously contain identifiers within namespaces.
<name> should be interpreted according to your DTD rather than using the definition for an element <name> in a different DTD. Perl
A domain of names. You needn't worry about whether the names in one such domain have been used in another. See "package".