Associations to the word «Descriptor»

Wiktionary

DESCRIPTOR, noun. That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.
DESCRIPTOR, noun. (computing) The name of a category of data in an information storage and retrieval system.
DESCRIPTOR, noun. (information science) A word that describes the subject of an article or book.

Dictionary definition

DESCRIPTOR, noun. The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached".
DESCRIPTOR, noun. A piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin