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English

identifier

noun

Meaning

  1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
  2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
  3. 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).
  4. (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.
  5. A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
  6. A primary key.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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