1Linguistics A word or expression used to describe or identify something.
〔语言学〕描写词语，描述词语
Example sentencesExamples
We included single words, short and long phrases, rhymes, names of numbers, and other descriptors and action word phrases.
The descriptor words themselves appeared one or more times within a particular obituary or across different obituaries.
Values are expressed as mean [+ or -] SD, and the word descriptors are expressed as [chi square] or by p value.
Next, I determined whether the literature distribution is different across different key word descriptors describing environmental endocrine disruption.
Word descriptors reflect the distinct qualities of the language of breathlessness, and as health professionals, we must ask the correct symptom questions to determine the appropriate interventions.
2Computing A piece of stored data that indicates how other data is stored.
〔计算机〕描述符，解说符
Example sentencesExamples
The use of the descriptor to steer the data into the transmit buffer or out of the receive buffer allows a simplified hardware implementation as compared to prior art methods that must examine and count the data as it is transferred.
Since Linux stores the process descriptor and the kernel mode process stack in a single 8KB memory area, we can use this fact and avoid allocating memory for labeling the subjects.
Scanning an array of descriptors or waiting for data consumes processing time.
System calls also serve this generalization function across programming languages; e.g., the read system call will read data from a file descriptor.
Method of scheduling interrupts to the linked lists of transfer descriptors scheduled at intervals on a serial bus
Definition of descriptor in US English:
descriptor
noundəˈskrɪptərdəˈskriptər
1Linguistics A word or expression used to describe or identify something.
〔语言学〕描写词语，描述词语
Example sentencesExamples
We included single words, short and long phrases, rhymes, names of numbers, and other descriptors and action word phrases.
Word descriptors reflect the distinct qualities of the language of breathlessness, and as health professionals, we must ask the correct symptom questions to determine the appropriate interventions.
Next, I determined whether the literature distribution is different across different key word descriptors describing environmental endocrine disruption.
Values are expressed as mean [+ or -] SD, and the word descriptors are expressed as [chi square] or by p value.
The descriptor words themselves appeared one or more times within a particular obituary or across different obituaries.
2Computing A piece of stored data that indicates how other data is stored.
〔计算机〕描述符，解说符
Example sentencesExamples
Method of scheduling interrupts to the linked lists of transfer descriptors scheduled at intervals on a serial bus
Since Linux stores the process descriptor and the kernel mode process stack in a single 8KB memory area, we can use this fact and avoid allocating memory for labeling the subjects.
Scanning an array of descriptors or waiting for data consumes processing time.
The use of the descriptor to steer the data into the transmit buffer or out of the receive buffer allows a simplified hardware implementation as compared to prior art methods that must examine and count the data as it is transferred.
System calls also serve this generalization function across programming languages; e.g., the read system call will read data from a file descriptor.