identifiee

English

Etymology

identify +‎ -ee

Noun

identifiee (plural identifiees)

1. One who or that which is identified; the subject of an identification.
   • 1993, I. G. Roberts, Verbs and Diachronic Syntax, page 281:

     As with other forms of PF-identification, for example nominal Case, there is a general ban on 'over-identification'; in general, identifying features are in a bi-unique relation to their identifiees (cf. 1.5.).

   • 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:

     Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]

Antonyms

• identifier