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identifiee

identifiee noun: one who or that which is identified; the subject of an identification.

Noun

identifiee (plural identifiees)

  1. One who or that which is identified; the subject of an identification.
    • As with other forms of PF-identification, for example nominal Case, there is a general ban on 'over-identification'; in general, identifying features are in a bi-unique relation to their identifiees (cf. 1.5.).1993, I. G. Roberts, Verbs and Diachronic Syntax, page 281
    • Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291

Antonyms of identifiee

Forms of identifiee

pluralidentifiees

Origin of identifiee

From identify + -ee.

Questions about identifiee

What does identifiee mean?
Identifiee means one who or that which is identified; the subject of an identification.
What part of speech is identifiee?
Identifiee is a noun.
What is the plural of identifiee?
The plural of identifiee is identifiees.

Words near identifiee in the dictionary

  1. identificatorily
  2. identificators
  3. identificatory
  4. identified
  5. identifiedness
  6. identifiee
  7. identifiees
  8. identifier
  9. identifiers
  10. identifies
  11. identify

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