Definition of descriptor Descriptor
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What does descriptor mean?
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NounPlural: descriptors |
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| descriptor - a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | ||
| information (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" | ||
| descriptor - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" | ||
| form, word form, signifier | ||
| word a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
| plural, plural form the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | ||
| singular, singular form the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | ||
| ghost word a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error | ||
| root word, theme, radical, stem, root, base a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" | ||
| etymon, root a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | ||
| citation form, entry word, main entry word the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary | ||
| abbreviation shortening something by omitting parts of it | ||
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