Definizione monolingua

identifier

identifier

1. to identify

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 horses registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the tracks 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.

Definizione dizionario identifier

	identificatore
	Any text string used as a label, such as the name of a procedure or a variable in a program or the name attached to a hard disk or floppy disk.

Altri significati:

(databases) A primary key.

(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.

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

primary key

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

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).

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