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identifier en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English identify Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English identifier From identify + -er.

Meanings

  1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
    • The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes). 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry:
    • The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier. 2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track:
    • Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […] 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:
  2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
    • The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed. 2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN:
    • Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier. 2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis:
  3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
    • While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate data by gender, trans identifiers are not included, it is solely by men and women 2019, Raina Simone Henderson, The Cost of Identity, page 80:
  4. A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
  5. (qualifier:operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
  6. A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
  7. A primary key.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
identifiers Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

identifiee

Coordinates

authenticator

Deriveds

universally unique identifier · self-identifier · key set identifier · service set identifier · unique identifier · uniform resource identifier

Relateds

id · descriptor · ID

Translations (53)

cmn 識別碼 /识别码 (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · cs primární klíč (primary key) · pl identyfikator (primary key) · gu ઓળખકર્તા (primary key) · cs identifikátor (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · hu azonosító (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ar مُعَرِّف (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · fa شناسه (primary key) · vi mã số (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · vi mã nhận dạng (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · nb identifikator (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · vi kí hiệu nhận dạng (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · uk ідентифіка́тор (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · bg идентифика́тор (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · sh идентифѝка̄тор (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · fr identifiant (primary key) · sk identifikátor (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · hi अभिज्ञापक (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ru идентифика́тор (primary key) · fi tunniste (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ka მაიდენტიფიცირებელი (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · et tuvasti (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ko 식별자 (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · pl identyfikator (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ka იდენტიფიკატორი (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · de Identifikator (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · el αναγνωριστικό (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ia identificator (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · de Kennzeichen (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · sh примарни кључ (primary key) · sh identifìkātor (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · vi định danh (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · fr identificateur (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · la identificātor (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · pt identificador (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · mk идентифика́тор (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ca identificador (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · vi ký hiệu nhận dạng (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · kk сәйкестендіргіш (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ja 識別子 (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · fi pääavain (primary key) · fa شناسال (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ru перви́чный ключ (primary key) · cmn 標誌符 /标志符 (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · tr birincil anahtar (primary key) · be ідэнтыфіка́тар (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · cmn 标识符 (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · tr tanımlayıcı (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · sh primarni ključ (primary key) · es identificador (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · ru идентифика́тор (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · it identificatore (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.) · sl identifikator (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.)