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Ident - What does it mean?

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ident

English

(wikipedia ident)

Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Diligent; persistent.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Shortened form of identification

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Identification.
  • (television) A brief audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
  • * 2002 , Jane Austin, Graphic Originals
    • In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents .
  • (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
  • * 2004 , Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
    • ...the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root .
  • identifier (rfex)

    • Anagrams

    *

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.