identifier
/aɪdˈɛntəfˌaɪɚ/
Frequency: 3.12 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
noun
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
noun
One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
noun
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).
noun
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.
noun
A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
noun
A primary key.
Example Sentences
- "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"