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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{affix|en|identify|-er|id2=agent noun}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-identifier.wav|a=US}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# Someone who [[identify|identifies]]; a person who [[establish]]es the [[identity]] of someone or something.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|title=The Career Guide to the Horse Industry|author=Theodore A. Landers
|passage=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).
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bW6Px7v-onUC&lpg=PA159&dq=%22identifier%22&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q=%22identifier%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|title=Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track|author=John McEvoy
|passage=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'''.
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=p2vrYkSAXvsC&lpg=PA137&dq=%22identifier%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q=%22identifier%22%20horse&f=false}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Paolo Tombesi; Osamu Hirota|title=Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3|page=291
|passage=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 {{...}}}}
# Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Ted Dunstone; Neil Yager|title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
|passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric '''identifier'''.}}
# One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2019|author=Raina Simone Henderson|title=The Cost of Identity|page=80|passage=While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate data by gender, trans '''identifiers''' are not included, it is solely by men and women}}
# 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).
# {{lb|en|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.
# {{senseid|en|HTML}} {{lb|en|HTML}} A [[code]] that distinguishes a particular {{ll|en|element|id=computing}} from all other elements in a [[document]].
# {{lb|en|databases}} A [[primary key]].

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|identifiee}}

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|authenticator}} {{q|an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|key set identifier|self-identifier|service set identifier|uniform resource identifier|unique identifier}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مُعَرِّف|m}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|ідэнтыфіка́тар|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|идентифика́тор|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|identificador|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|識別碼|tr=shìbiémǎ}}, {{t|cmn|標誌符}}, {{t|cmn|标识符|tr=biāozhìfú}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|identifikátor|m}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|tuvasti}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tunniste}}
* French: {{t+|fr|identificateur|m}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|იდენტიფიკატორი}}
* German: {{t|de|Identifikator|m}}, {{t+|de|Kennzeichen|n}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αναγνωριστικό|n}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|अभिज्ञापक|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|azonosító}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|identificator}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|identificatore|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|識別子|tr=しきべつし, shikibetsushi}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|сәйкестендіргіш}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|식별자(識別子)}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|идентифика́тор|m}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|identifikator|m}}
* Persian: {{t|fa|شناسال|tr=šenâsâl}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|identyfikator|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|identificador|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|идентифика́тор|m|tr=idɛntifikátor}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|идентифѝка̄тор|m}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|identifìkātor|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|identifikátor|m}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|identifikator|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|identificador|m}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|tanımlayıcı}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|ідентифіка́тор|m}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|định danh}}, {{t|vi|mã nhận dạng}}, {{t|vi|ký hiệu nhận dạng}}, {{t|vi|kí hiệu nhận dạng}}, {{t+|vi|mã số}}
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{{trans-top|primary key}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|primární klíč|m}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|pääavain}}
* French: {{t+|fr|identifiant|m}}
* Gujarati: {{t|gu|ઓળખકર્તા}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|شناسه|tr=šenâse}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|идентифика́тор|m|tr=idɛntifikátor}}, {{t|ru|перви́чный ключ|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|примарни кључ|m}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|primarni ključ|m}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|birincil anahtar}}
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====See also====
* {{l|en|id}}
* {{l|en|ID}}

===See also===
* {{pedia}}

{{C|en|People}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|fr|ML.|identifico|identificāre}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-identifier.ogg}}

===Verb===
{{fr-verb}}

# to [[identify]]
# to [[log in]]

====Conjugation====
{{fr-conj-auto}}

====Derived terms====
{{col3|fr
|objet volant non identifié
}}

====Related terms====
{{col3|fr
|identifiable
|identifiant
|identificateur
|identification
|identificatoire
|identique
|identiquement
|identitaire
|identité
}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}