identifier

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: i‧den‧ti‧fi‧er

Noun

Singular identifier

Plural identifiers

1. (countable) An identifier is a person or thing that identifies someone or something.
2. (countable) An identifier is a book that helps to determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb or drug), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).

Related words

• identify
• identification
• identity