specifier

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person or thing that specifies.
2. noun A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.

Similar words

specification extern operand particularizer designator spec definitor definer pinpointer distinguisher

Often followed by

of position is and in to for positions can