IDENTIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does identification mean? 

• IDENTIFICATION (noun)
  The noun IDENTIFICATION has 5 senses:

1. the act of designating or identifying something

2. evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing

3. the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established

4. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

5. the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

  Familiarity information: IDENTIFICATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDENTIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of designating or identifying something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

designation; identification

Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):

determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

Derivation:

identify (identify as in botany or biology, for example)

identify (conceive of as united or associated)

identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):

evidence (an indication that makes something evident)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):

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)

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)

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)

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)

facial profiling (identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces)

fingerprint (a generic term for any identifying characteristic)

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)

Derivation:

identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

identification of the gun was an important clue

Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

identify (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)

identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

identification; recognition

Context example:

experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer

Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):

memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):

identity (the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known)

speaker identification; talker identification (identification of a person from the sound of their voice)

Derivation:

identify (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):

identity; individuality; personal identity (the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity)

Derivation:

identify (consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else)

 Context examples 

A small molecule that reacts with a known target in a predictable way, thereby showing location, identification, physiological state, etc.

(Chemical Probe, NCI Thesaurus)

Each tract has a unique identification number consisting of a 4-digit basic number and a 2-digit suffix of the form 1234.56.

(Census Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

Staining of bands, or chromosome segments, allowing the precise identification of individual chromosomes or parts of chromosomes.

(Chromosome Banding, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A laboratory procedure that involves the study of tissues, cells, and fluids using DNA/RNA analysis techniques for the identification of characteristics and abnormalities at the molecular level.

(Molecular Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The identification of this superfamily helped elucidate some of the biologic functions of NGFR, including its ultimate involvement in the nuclear factor kappa-B (NFKB) and apoptosis pathways.

(Nerve Growth Factor Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique identification number for health care services, supplies, and equipment providers in the United States.

(National Provider Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology relevant to the test names that describe tumor assessments for identification purposes.

(CDISC SDTM Tumor Identification Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Terminology associated with the tumor identification test name codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Tumor Identification Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the tumor identification result codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Tumor Identification Result Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the microbial identification certainty codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Microbial Identification Certainty Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)