identifier

== English == === Etymology === From identify +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === === Noun === identifier (plural identifiers) Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing. 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). (programming, 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. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document. (databases) A primary key. ==== Antonyms ==== identifiee ==== Coordinate terms ==== authenticator (an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== descriptor id ID === See also === identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin identificāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/ === Verb === identifier to identify to log in ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “identifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012