different between identifier vs keyset

English

Etymology

identify +? -er

Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
3. 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).
4. (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.
6. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
7. (databases) A primary key.

Translations

See also

• id
• ID

See also

• identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *identificare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.d??.ti.fje/

Verb

identifier

1. to identify
2. to log in

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “identifier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

key +? set

Pronunciation

Noun

keyset (plural keysets)

1. (computing, telegraphy) An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters.
2. (computing, databases) A set of keys (unique identifiers) used to distinguish the rows of data being traversed by a cursor.
3. (rare) A collection of keys on a typewriter or keyboard.

   This typewriter has a numeric keyset to the right of the standard alphanumeric keyset.