1. 1  any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
data source name (DSN) A data source name (DSN) is a data structure that contains the information about a specific database that an Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC ) driver needs in order to connect to it.
The distinguished name (DN) is a critical component of the command so itâs important to be able to build a DN for different objects. If you can build a DN, you can use this knowledge with several directory service (DS) commands including dsquery, dsget, dsmod, dsmove, and dsrm.