label

Definitions

• A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
• A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
• (music) A company that sells records.
• (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
• (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
• (heraldiccharge) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
• (obsolete) A tassel.
• A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
• A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
• (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
• In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
• (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.