/ˈaɪdənt/
OriginFrom a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.
- Northern-England, ScotlandDiligent; persistent.
- An identification.
“Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.”
- A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
“In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.”
- InternetA protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
“[…] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.”
- An identifier.
- intransitiveTo activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.
Formsmore ident(comparative) · most ident(superlative) · eident(alternative) · idents(plural) · idents(present, singular, third-person) · identing(participle, present) · idented(participle, past) · idented(past)