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idents

idents is the plural of ident.

idents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ident.

Meaning of ident

Noun

ident (plural idents)

  1. An identification.
    • Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 37
  2. 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.2002, Jane Austin, Graphic Originals
  3. (Internet) A 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.2004, Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
  4. An identifier.

See all 6 meanings of ident

Questions about idents

What is idents the plural of?
Idents is the plural of ident.

Words near idents in the dictionary

  1. identity theft
  2. identity thefts
  3. identityless
  4. identitylessness
  5. idently
  6. idents
  7. ideo-
  8. ideoblast
  9. ideocentric
  10. ideocracies
  11. ideocracy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: idents (page history and authors); ident (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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