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English

Etymology

From identify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

  1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
    • 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry‎:
      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).
    • 2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track‎:
      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.
    • 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:
      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 […]
  2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
    • 2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis:
      Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.
    • 2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN‎:
      The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed.
  3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
    • 2019, Raina Simone Henderson, The Cost of Identity, page 80:
      While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate data by gender, trans identifiers are not included, it is solely by men and women
  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. (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.
  7. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
  8. (databases) A primary key.

Antonyms

Coordinate terms

  • authenticator (an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin identificāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

identifier

  1. to identify
  2. to log in

Conjugation

Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
More information infinitive, simple ...

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