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descriptor

noun
/dɪˈskɹɪp.tə/UK/dɪˈskɹɪp.təɹ/CA/dəˈskɹəp.tə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin dēscrīptōris. Compare describe.

  1. derived from dēscrīptōris

Definitions

  1. That which describes

    That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.

The neighborhood

Derived

file descriptor, segment descriptor, stereodescriptor

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for descriptor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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