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identifier.

Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  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.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English identify Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English identifier From identify + -er.

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