identifier

English

Etymology

From identify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
   • 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry‎^[1]:

     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).

   • 2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:

     Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]

2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
   • 2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis:

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

3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
   • 2019, Raina Simone Henderson, The Cost of Identity, page 80:

     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. (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.
7. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
8. (databases) A primary key.

Antonyms

• identifiee

Coordinate terms

• authenticator (an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it)

Derived terms

• key set identifier
• self-identifier
• service set identifier
• uniform resource identifier
• unique identifier

 

Translations

formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.

• Arabic: مُعَرِّف m (muʕarrif)
• Belarusian: ідэнтыфіка́тар m (identyfikátar)
• Bulgarian: идентифика́тор m (identifikátor)
• Catalan: identificador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 識別碼／识别码 (zh) (shìbiémǎ), 標誌符／标志符 (biāoshífú), 标识符 (biāozhìfú)

• Czech: identifikátor (cs) m
• Estonian: tuvasti
• Finnish: tunniste (fi)
• French: identificateur (fr) m
• Georgian: იდენტიფიკატორი (idenṭipiḳaṭori)
• German: Identifikator m, Kennzeichen (de) n
• Greek: αναγνωριστικό (el) n (anagnoristikó)
• Hindi: अभिज्ञापक (hi) m (abhijñāpak)
• Hungarian: azonosító (hu)
• Interlingua: identificator
• Italian: identificatore (it) m
• Japanese: 識別子 (ja) (しきべつし, shikibetsushi)
• Kazakh: сәйкестендіргіш (säikestendırgış)
• Korean: 식별자(識別子) (sikbyeolja)
• Macedonian: идентифика́тор m (identifikátor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: identifikator m

• Persian: شناسال (šenâsâl)
• Polish: identyfikator (pl) m
• Portuguese: identificador (pt) m
• Russian: идентифика́тор (ru) m (idɛntifikátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: идентифѝка̄тор m

  Roman: identifìkātor (sh) m

• Slovak: identifikátor m
• Slovene: identifikator m
• Spanish: identificador (es) m
• Turkish: tanımlayıcı
• Ukrainian: ідентифіка́тор m (identyfikátor)
• Vietnamese: định danh (vi), mã nhận dạng, ký hiệu nhận dạng, kí hiệu nhận dạng, mã số (vi)

primary key

• Czech: primární klíč m
• Finnish: pääavain
• French: identifiant (fr) m
• Gujarati: ઓળખકર્તા (oḷkhakartā)
• Persian: شناسه (fa) (šenâse)
• Russian: идентифика́тор (ru) m (idɛntifikátor), перви́чный ключ m (pervíčnyj ključ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: примарни кључ m

  Roman: primarni ključ m

• Turkish: birincil anahtar

See also

• id
• ID

See also

• identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin identificāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/

• Audio:

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Verb

identifier

1. to identify
2. to log in

Conjugation

Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	identifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	identifiant /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		identifié /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifies /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	identifiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	identifient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
	imperfect	identifiais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiait /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	identifiiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	identifiaient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic2	identifiai /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	identifias /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifia /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifiâmes /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjam/	identifiâtes /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjat/	identifièrent /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	identifierai /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	identifieras /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	identifiera /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	identifierons /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	identifierez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	identifieront /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	identifierais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierait /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	identifieriez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/	identifieraient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifies /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifiions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	identifiiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	identifient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
	imperfect2	identifiasse /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/	identifiasses /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/	identifiât /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifiassions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	identifiassiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sje/	identifiassent /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	—	identifions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	identifiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• objet volant non identifié

 

Related terms

• identifiable
• identifiant
• identificateur
• identification
• identificatoire
• identique
• identiquement
• identitaire
• identité

 

Further reading

• “identifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.