identification

i·den·ti·fi·ca·tion  (-dnt-f-kshn)

n.

1.

a. The act of identifying.

b. The state of being identified.

2. Abbr. ID Proof or evidence of identity.

3. Psychology A person's association with or assumption of the qualities, characteristics, or views of another person or group.

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1. The process of determining the friendly or hostile character of an unknown detected contact.
2. In arms control, the process of determining which nation is responsible for the detected violations of any arms control measure.
3. In ground combat operations, discrimination between recognizable objects as being friendly or enemy, or the name that belongs to the object as a member of a class. Also called ID.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	identification - the act of designating or identifying something designation determination, finding - the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation; "the determination of molecular structures" diagnosing, diagnosis - identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon
	2.	identification - evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing ballistic fingerprinting, ballistic identification, bullet fingerprinting - identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it biometric authentication, biometric identification, identity verification - the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics; "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot" evidence - an indication that makes something evident; "his trembling was evidence of his fear" imprint - an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page; "the book was published under a distinguished imprint" positive identification - evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance; "a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people" negative identification - evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection; "a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person" facial profiling - identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces; "facial profiling is a new form of airport security" fingerprint - a generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it" linguistic profiling - using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class profiling - recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
	3.	identification - the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established; "the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"; "identification of the gun was an important clue" condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
	4.	identification - the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" recognition remembering, memory - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" identity - the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"; "it was too dark to determine his identity"; "she guessed the identity of his lover" speaker identification, talker identification - identification of a person from the sound of their voice
	5.	identification - the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) identity, personal identity, individuality - the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"

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identification

noun 1. discovery, recognition, determining, establishment, diagnosis, confirmation, detection, divination

noun 2. recognition, naming, labelling, distinguishing, cataloguing, classifying, confirmation, pinpointing, establishment of identity

noun 3. connection, relationship, link, association, tie, partnership, affinity, familiarity, interconnection, interrelation

noun 4. understanding, relationship, involvement, unity, sympathy, empathy, rapport, fellow feeling

noun 5. ID, papers, credentials, licence, warrant, identity card, proof of identity, letters of introduction

Translations

identification [aɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] n → identificación f;

means of identification → documentos mpl personales

identification [aɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] n → identification f;

means of identification → pièce f d'identité

identification [aɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] n → Identifizierung f;

(means of) identification → Ausweispapiere pl

identification [aɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] n → identificazione f;

means of identification → carta d'identità