ascertainment vs ident

ascertainment

noun

  • The act of ascertaining. 

ident

noun

  • Identification. 

  • Identifier. 

  • A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks. 

  • A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster. 

adj

  • Diligent; persistent. 

How often have the words ascertainment and ident occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )