DESCRIPTOR meaning: Attribute that characterizes or identifies

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word descriptor:

General (15 matching dictionaries)

descriptor: Merriam-Webster
descriptor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
descriptor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
descriptor: Collins English Dictionary
descriptor: Vocabulary.com
Descriptor, descriptor: Wordnik
descriptor: Wiktionary
descriptor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
descriptor: Infoplease Dictionary
descriptor: Dictionary.com
Descriptor (Chemistry), Descriptor (chemistry), Descriptor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
descriptor: Rhymezone
descriptor: FreeDictionary.org
descriptor: Mnemonic Dictionary
descriptor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Descriptor: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Descriptor: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

descriptor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
descriptor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky

Definitions from Wiktionary (descriptor)

▸ noun:  That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.
▸ noun:  (computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A word or expression used to describe or identify something.

Similar:

description word, deictic, deets, doodad, diamond, deixis, deal, Dorism, dryer, demon, more...

Opposite:

antonym

Types:

physical, personality, sensory, temporal, spatial, achievement, behavioral, cognitive, more...

Phrases:

Deployment descriptor, File descriptor, data descriptor, specific descriptor, age descriptor, more...

Adjectives:

new, xml, single, appropriate, specific, open, valid, generic, standard, better, useful

Colors:

crimson, azure, emerald, amber, indigo, more...