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The act of designating or identifying something
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identification
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "treating of a thing as the same as another," from French identification , probably from identifier (see identify ). Sense of "becoming or feeling oneself one with another" is from 1857. Sense of "determination of identity" is from 1859. Meaning ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The function of identification is to map a known quantity to an unknown entity so as to make it known. The known quantity is called the identifier (or ID) and the unknown entity is what needs identification. A basic requirement for identification is that ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of designating or identifying something [syn: designation ] attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a means of identification (= an official document that shows who you are ) ▪ Do you have any means of identification? identification parade personal identification number COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE accurate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of identifying, or proving to be the same. 2 The state of being identified. 3 A particular instance of identifying something. 4 A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity. 5 A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding ...
Usage examples of identification.
L staff whose job was to check identifications before allowing admittance to the ball.
The striking photograph and quick, playful headline created instant identification with the advertiser and represented the kind of products that could be found at the store.
In the identification of the divine consciousness, that is, the power of God, with the force to which the world is due the naturalistic basis of the apologetic speculations is most clearly shown.
Paying off the arsonist was not a problem - they had untraceable cash in abundance at their disposal and they had taken great care not to leave themselves open to identification by their pyrophilic agent.
NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 7, 9:21:10.
For first quote, see NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5, 9:35:50.
NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, recorder 1, channel 7, 9:41.
A modified Boeing 707, it carried extensive mission avionics packages for long-range targeting information and identification.
Many biker strippers use an alias and false identification when they sign up for a job.
The identification codes that Broder had sent him were good then, and a lucky thing.
The identification codes that Broder had sent hir were good then, and a lucky thing.
A little research showed it that DNA testing for purposes of identification was usually done with buccal swabs, just wiping a few cells off the inside of the cheek, noninvasive and less personal than a blood or sperm sample.
He took her name, checked her identification, and glanced up and down her slender frame as if disbelieving she was a Carabinieri lieutenant.
Separately, identifications were provided, checkable and confirmable several times over.
To Blatherwick, who had very little sympathy with gladness of any sort, the sight only called up by contrast the very different scene on which his eyes would look down the next evening from the vantage coigne of the pulpit, in a church filled with an eminently respectable congregation--to which he would be setting forth the results of certain late geographical discoveries and local identifications, not knowing that already even later discoveries had rendered all he was about to say more than doubtful.