identifier

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Synonyms: identified, identifies, identifiers, identifyee, identities, densifier

Antonyms: identified, identifies, identifiers, identifyee, identities, densifier

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Noun

1. Someone who [[identify|identifies]]; a person who [[establish]]es 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. {{lb|en|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.
6. {{senseid|en|HTML}} {{lb|en|HTML}} A [[code]] that distinguishes a particular {{ll|en|element|id=computing}} from all other elements in a [[document]].
7. {{lb|en|databases}} A [[primary key]].

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