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identifier
Any label, symbol or token that names or identifies an entity or a collection of data. See identification.
identifier [ī′dent·ə‚fī·ər]
(computer science)
A symbol whose purpose is to specify a body of data.

identifier - 1. 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.

Each different type of entity may have a different range of valid identifiers or "name space". For example, an identifier in C is a series of one or more letters, digits and underscores that does not begin with a digit. An identifier has a type, e.g. integer variable, hash, variant and a scope, e.g. block, global.


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In order to simplify the format of the access control policy and reduce the ACL's size, IBAC uses the IA to classify Identifiers, and adopts unified operation on the Identifiers which have the same IA.
It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers.
1, 2010, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will be required to obtain loan-level identifiers for the loan originator, loan origination company, field appraiser and supervisory appraiser.
 
 
 
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