Identifier

Definitions

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
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. 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.

Equivalents

21 more languages

العربيةالمعرّفمعرّف

Bosanskiidentifikatorидентификатор

Češtinaidentifikátorprimární klíč

Ελληνικάαναγνωριστικό

Suomipääavaintunnistajatunnistetunnusnumero+ 1 more

ગુજરાતીઓળખકર્તા

हिन्दीपहचानकर्ता

Hrvatskiidentifikatorидентификатор

Magyarazonosító

Italianoidentificatore

日本語ID識別子

ქართულიიდენტიფიკატორი

Қазақ тілісәйкестендіргіш

한국어식별자

Kurdîîd

Polskiidentyfikator

Portuguêsidentificador

РусскийИДЕНТИФИКАТОРперви́чный ключ

Српскиidentifikatorидентификатор

Türkçebirincil anahtartanıtıcı

Tiếng Việtđịnh danhký hiệu nhận dạngmã nhận dạngmã số+ 1 more

Examples

“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).”

“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.”

“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 […]”

“Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.”

“The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed.”

“While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate⟳ data by gender, trans identifiers are not included, it is solely by men and women”

CEFR level