identifier
noun C1- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- 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).
- 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.
- A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- A primary key.
Plural identifiers
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