identifier

identifier

English

Etymology

identify +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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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:

     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:

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

Translations

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

Arabic: مُعَرِّف‎ m (muʿarrif) Belarusian: ідэнтыфіка́тар m (identyfikátar) Bulgarian: идентифика́тор m (identifikátor) Catalan: identificador (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 識別碼 (zh), 识别码 (zh) (shìbiémǎ), 標誌符, 标识符 (biāozhìfú) Czech: identifikátor 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 (abhigyāpak) Hungarian: azonosító (hu) Italian: identificatore m Japanese: 識別子 (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 (fa) (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, 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

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *identificare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/

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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.