Personal identification number
nounid
3560·updated May 12, 2026candidate
A secret that a claimant memorizes and uses to authenticate his or her identity. PINs are generally only decimal digits.
polysemousMWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Credential0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
Pii85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- acronym
- PIN
- plural
- Personal identification numbers
- possessive
- Personal identification number's
- pluralpossessive
- Personal identification numbers'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A type of password (i.e., a secret number assigned to an individual) that, in conjunction with some means of identifying the individual, serves to verify the authenticity of the individual Scope Note: PINs have been adopted by financial institutions as the primary means of verifying customers in an electronic funds transfer (EFT) system.
- §1
- A password consisting only of decimal digits.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- A secret that a claimant memorizes and uses to authenticate his or her identity. PINs are generally only decimal digits.
- §3 · sense_3_pending_review
- An alphanumeric code or password used to authenticate an identity.
- §4 · sense_4_pending_review
- A short numeric code used to confirm identity.
- §1
- A short numeric code used to confirm identity.
- §1
- A password consisting only of decimal digits.
- §1
- An alphanumeric code or password used to authenticate an identity.
- §1
- A secret that a claimant memorizes and uses to authenticate his or her identity. PINs are generally only decimal digits.
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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