ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. An identification.
  2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
  3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
  4. An identifier.
  5. (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.

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