Learn English – Something that has a “name and description”

single-word-requests

This is for programming, a variable name.

I have been thinking and searching and cannot come up with anything. I need a single (non-obscure) word that implies having a name, and description. Ex:

The Foo Name
And this is the description part. Goes on and on…

What would I call that pair?

Best Answer

Generally, things have names. It's pretty common. As such, I'd recommend calling it describable, modified to fit your language's conventions.

Note also that this might be a symptom of bad programming practices -- generally, if you have something so vague you're struggling to come up with a word for it, you need to step one level down the abstraction tree and be more concrete.