identification

Nouns

  • (n) the act of designating or identifying something designation,
  • (n) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
  • (n) 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
  • (n) 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,
  • (n) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

Synonyms

designation recognition

Words of close approximity

identification number identification particle