descriptor

• Substantiv, das ein Wort, einen Ausdruck oder einen Teil gespeicherter Informationen bezeichnet, das bzw. der zur Beschreibung, Identifizierung oder Kategorisierung von etwas dient, z. B. in der Linguistik oder in Informationssystemen.

A noun referring to a word, phrase, or piece of stored information used to describe, identify, or categorize something, such as in linguistics or information retrieval systems.

1. Phonological or orthographic identifierB2formal

   The sound or written form of a word that helps describe or identify an object, concept, or entity.

   Phonetischer oder orthographischer Identifikator

   • The descriptor 'red' helps identify the color of the car.
   • In linguistics, a descriptor can be the phonetic representation of a word.
   • The orthographic descriptor of 'cat' is C-A-T.

   Synonymeappellationdesignationidentifierlabelnametermword

2. Information retrieval identifierB2formalIT

   A piece of stored data used to identify and retrieve an item in an information storage and retrieval system.

   Deskriptor

   • The database uses a unique descriptor for each document.
   • Search engines rely on descriptors to index web pages.
   • Each file in the system has a descriptor that includes metadata.

   Synonymeidentifiertag