Descriptor
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Descriptor may refer to
- file descriptorFile descriptorIn computer programming, a file descriptor is an abstract indicator for accessing a file. The term is generally used in POSIX operating systems...
, an abstract key for accessing a file - index term, also known as a "descriptor" in information retrieval
- molecular descriptorMolecular descriptorMolecular descriptors play a fundamental role in chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, environmental protection policy, and health researches, as well as in quality control, being the way molecules, thought of as real bodies, are transformed into numbers, allowing some mathematical treatment of the...
, which helps characterize a chemical compound - segment descriptorSegment descriptorIn memory addressing for Intel x86 computer architectures, segment descriptors are a part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address...
, used for memory addressing in x86 computer architectures