Glossary
Welcome to the Glossary! Whether you're already familiar with some of these terms or you're just becoming acquainted, our top-level glossary is a great resource for learning all of the relevant goods. Scroll through the full list below, search by term, or select by individual letter.
UCS
Short for Uniform Control Standards. UCS is a substandard of X12.
UDP
Short for User Datagram Protocol. It is an alternative communications protocol to TCP, use primarily for establishing low-latency and loss-tolerating connections between applications on the internet.
UID
A UID, or Unique Identifier, is a numeric or alphanumeric string that is associated with a single entity within a given system.