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# A Record

A type of DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv4 address.

An A Record maps a domain name to its corresponding IPv4 address, which is the numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

Essentially, when you want to visit a website, the A Record tells the browser where to find the website by translating the human-readable domain name \(like wikipedia.org\) into the machine-readable IP address \(such as 103.102.166.224\).