a) [IBM] A mechanism used to identify certain attributes having some bearing on handling of character data. Some examples are character set identifier, code page identifier, language identifier, country indentifier, and encoding scheme identifier. b) Identification of objects, which can be handled independently of the object (like a price tag on a banana). The tag may contain information or only point to it (for example, if the information is very complex like a rule to sort French text). In this case the tag is an identification of information about the object (the text in French). Tags can be held in data dictionaries or in close connection to the data (for example in communications, where data blocks are preceeded by information about the data).

A unique identifier for an AdvFS file within a fileset.

An item included with a potted plant to identify the hybridizer and variety of the plant. While there are various types, the most common tag used on African Violets is a plant stake.

An identifier in a directory entry used to specify the internal name of an associated field.

(none) A tag is used by BaBar to identify a version of BaBar package. For example, tag V01-02-03 for SoftRelTools signifies major version 01, medium version 02, and minor version 03 of package SoftRelTools.

This is a number given to individual DCS control units so that the system can identify them.

A (usually) unique textual identifier for a Set Machine object. See the Tag topic.

A tag is an arbitrary identifier portion of the Branch Name, and is specified by the owner of a given Namespace. In an example branch name such as rpl:trunk, the tag portion of the branch name is trunk.

A metal plate containing a Suffolk Community College assigned control number for the purpose of identifying equipment for college property control.

An alphanumeric string used to identify the Registrar associated with a domain name.

Each variable field in a USMARC record is identified by a three-character tag from 001 to 999.

a character or set of characters appended to an item of data in order to identify it. (OED)

To identify electric equipment by class, group and the temperature range for which it is approved.