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Plural of descriptor

regular plural

The plural of descriptor is descriptors.

Forms of descriptor

Singulardescriptor /dɪˈskɹɪp.tə/
Pluraldescriptors /dɪˈskɹɪp.təz/
Countablecountable

Descriptors in a sentence

  • This makes library routines that use file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 harmless.1993, Stephen A. Rago, UNIX System V Network Programming, Pearson, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry /dev/null
  • Many of us also distill ourselves into descriptors that we think they might understand or accept, doing the cislating for them through “how” we participate.2020 November 5, Nancy S. Niemi, Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education, John Wiley & Sons…. From the entry cislate
  • As an avid reader, but one who gave up academia years ago, parsing meaning from the dense descriptors occasionally left me ready to shout Parklife.2019 December 5, Laura Waddell, “Scotland’s ‘Unmakars’ can take you to some unexpected places”, in The Scotsman. From the entry parklife
  • One of the benefits of JSP technology is that you aren't required to create complex deployment descriptors to deploy, autocompile, and run a JSP document in a J2EE server.2002, Lennart Jörelid, J2EE frontend technologies: a programmer's guide to servlets, JavaServer pages, and Enterprise JavaBeans. From the entry autocompile

Meaning of descriptor

  1. noun A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.
  2. noun A word or expression used to describe or identify something.

Full definition of descriptor

Questions about the plural of descriptor

What is the plural of descriptor?
The plural of descriptor is descriptors.
Is descriptor countable?
Descriptor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: descriptor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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