identifier

identifiernoun

• 1

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

  • 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).
  • 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.
• 2

  Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.

  • Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.
  • 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.

  • 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

  computingengineeringmathematicsA 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

  computingdatabasesengineeringA primary key.