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object name service, ONS
An Auto-ID Center-designed system for looking up unique Electronic Product Codes and pointing computers to information about the item associated with the code.

ONS is similar to the Domain Name Service, which points computers to sites on the internet.

This entry is located in the following units: jet-, -ject, -jecting, -jected, -jection, -jector, -jectory; jacu-, jac- (page 5) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): Definitions (page 7)