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Identifier

Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.

📖 Definitions of "Identifier"

noun

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.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Identifier"

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Word	Definition
identificationnoun	A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
identifyverb	(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
designatornoun	A person who, or term that, designates.
designationnoun	That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
identifyingnoun	An act of identification.
tokennoun	Something serving as an expression of something else.
indicativenoun	Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.
indicatornoun	A pointer or index that indicates something.
characteristicnoun	Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
identitynoun	The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
distinguishingnoun	The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.
numbernoun	Quantity.
symbolnoun	A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
indexnoun	An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
handlernoun	(literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
hallmarknoun	(figurative) A distinguishing characteristic.
badgenoun	A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one’s clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
identnoun	An identification.
codenoun	(programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
usernamenoun	(computing) A name or string of characters used as a person's identification on an individual computer system.