ident

Meanings

Adjective

• Diligent; persistent.

Noun

• Identification.
• A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
• A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
• Identifier.

Origin

• From 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, from ið, equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn ("diligent"), Norwegian idig ("busy"), Danish id ("pursuit, calling, business"). More at ithand.
• Shortened form of identification.