URL vs universal resource locator

URL and universal resource locator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
URL	Yes	No	No	No
universal resource locator	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, URL and universal resource locator are synonyms defined as:

URL and universal resource locator: the address of a web page on the world wide web

Other synonyms of URL include uniform resource locator.

URL (noun)	universal resource locator (noun)
the address of a web page on the world wide web	the address of a web page on the world wide web