identifier

English

Etymology

to identify + -er

Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
   • 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.

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 as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.

3. 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).
4. (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.
5. (databases) A primary key.

See also

• id

Translations

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

• Catalan: identificador (ca) m
• Czech: identifikátor (cs) m
• Estonian: tuvasti (et)
• Finnish: tunniste (fi)
• French: identificateur (fr) m
• Italian: identificatore (it) m

• Japanese: 識別子 (ja) (shikibetsushi)
• Polish: identyfikator (pl) m
• Russian: идентификатор (ru) (identifikátor) m
• Serbo-Croatian: identifikator (sh) m, идентификатор (sh) m
• Spanish: identificador (es) m
• Turkish: tanımlayıcı (tr)

primary key

• Czech: primární klíč (cs) m
• Finnish: pääavain (fi)
• French: identifiant (fr) m
• Russian: идентификатор (ru) (identifikátor) m, первичный ключ (ru) (pervíčnyj ključ) m

• Serbo-Croatian: primarni ključ (sh) m, примарни кључ (sh) m
• Turkish: birincil anahtar (tr)

See also

• Identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *identificare.

Pronunciation

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Verb

identifier

1. to identify

Conjugation

   Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		identifier			avoir or être identifié
gerund		en identifiant			en ayant identifié or en étant identifié
present participle		identifiant
past participle		identifié
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	identifie	identifies	identifie	identifions	identifiez	identifient
	imperfect	identifiais	identifiais	identifiait	identifiions	identifiiez	identifiaient
	past historic1	identifiai	identifias	identifia	identifiâmes	identifiâtes	identifièrent
	future	identifierai	identifieras	identifiera	identifierons	identifierez	identifieront
	conditional	identifierais	identifierais	identifierait	identifierions	identifieriez	identifieraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	identifie	identifies	identifie	identifiions	identifiiez	identifient
	imperfect1	identifiasse	identifiasses	identifiât	identifiassions	identifiassiez	identifiassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	identifie	—	identifions	identifiez	—
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