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S vs Identifier - What's the difference?

s | identifier |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun identifier is

someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    identifier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
  • * {{quote-book, 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). citation
  • * {{quote-book, 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 . citation
  • Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
    • , passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier .}}
  • 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).
  • (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.
  • (databases) A primary key.

    • See also

    * id

    See also

    * ("identifier" on Wikipedia) ----