English

Alternative forms

• eident (Scotland)

Adjective

ident ‎(comparative more ident, superlative most ident)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.

Derived terms

• idently

Etymology 2

Shortened form of identification

Noun

ident ‎(plural idents)

1. Identification.
2. (television) A brief audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
   • 2002, Jane Austin, Graphic Originals

     In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.

3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
   • 2004, Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime

     ...the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.

4. identifier (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• detin