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ident

Pronunciation: /ˈaɪdənt/

The English word “ident” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Diligent; persistent.

noun

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

verb

  1. To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.

Etymology

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

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