identifier

Meaning

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
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. 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.
6. A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
7. A primary key.

Synonyms

id

🆔

ID

🆔

name

evaluator

expert witness

login

match

nomenclature

reconnaissance plane

title

verifier

confirmor

confirming party

language identifier

denoter

identification character

designation

symbolic name

designator

discriminator

Translations

identificateur

identifiant

identificador

Bezeichner

identificador

identificador

identificatore

αναγνωριστικό

Identifizierungszeichen

éléments d’identification

Code

محدد الهوية

Identifikator

Identifikationsnummer

Etymology

From identify + -er.