Ident
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈaɪdənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ident is an adjective meaning (Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.
Meaning
(Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.
More Meanings
- An identification.
- (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
- (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
- An identifier.
- (aviation, intransitive) To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.
Example Sentences
Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.
In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.
[…] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.
Word Forms
- idents
- identing
- idented
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include answer, identifying, identification, identify, identifier, designator.
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