A visitor to a Drupal website who is not currently logged in. Drupal considers any such visitor as being the anonymous user, with the user ID 0, and belonging to the anonymous user role.

c. 1600, from Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + onyma, Æolic dialectal form of onoma "name" (see name (n.)).

Without an ability to identify a person. In anonymous testing, patient-identifying information is not linked to testing information, including the request for tests or test results.

unknown person or contributor.

Anyone who views your site without being logged in is considered anonymous. Everything anonymous visitors can see and do on your site is determined by the permissions you give the Anonymous user role. You should refrain from giving the Anonymous user role sensitive administrative permissions like 'Administer all content.' See also: authen [..]

unknown or unacknowledged authorship; sometimes abbreviated "anon." for anonymous or anonymously; "anon" without the period means "at another time" or "again" Antanaclasis:

having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift" not known o [..]

adj. Of unknown authorship.

Applies ONLY where the information is non-identifiable to anyone - even the researcher.

Term attached to a musical composition when the composer is unknown.

With no traceability; unable to ascertain the actual identity of the claimed identity; very likely to imply naming that is intentionally opaque. Anonymous FTP: Service supported by many Internet hosts [..]

(adj) having no known name or identity or known source(adj) not known or lacking marked individuality

Anonymous data has had all personal information (such as names or addresses of clinical trial participants) removed, so that people using trial data cannot identify the individuals who took part. Trul [..]

Anonymity is one of the "holy grails" of hacking. The idea is that a human being can use a system or send messages while protecting their identity from being disclosed. Example: Anonymous [..]

An Organization of self-proclaimed Alcoholics who meet frequently to reinforce their practice of abstinence.

without name, usually used for a published work or quote with no known author.

Anonymous is a hacking group that initiates acts of civil disobedience without revealing user identities. Anonymous originated in 2003 in the "4chan" imageboard to symbolize the conc [..]

Anonymous, in a general computing context, means keeping a user's name and identity concealed through various applications. For security, an application may require that users' names be kept [..]

Used to describe a referent that is not directly accessible through a named variable. Such a referent must be indirectly accessible through at least one hard reference. When the last hard reference goes away, the anonymous referent is destroyed without pity.

When someone’s name is kept secret.

Not named or identified

Used to describe a referent

(not comparable) Lacking a name; not named and determined, as an animal not assigned to any species. (not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible, as that of author, cont [..]