IDENTIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does identified mean? 

• IDENTIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective IDENTIFIED has 1 sense:

1. having the identity known or established

  Familiarity information: IDENTIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDENTIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the identity known or established

Context example:

the identified bodies were released for burial

Similar:

known (apprehended with certainty)

 Context examples 

A tiny cyst that is usually identified by microscopic examination in a tissue specimen.

(Microcyst, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanism by which the test subject is identified.

(Method Of Identification, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The mechanism by which something is identified.

(Method Of Identification, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists identified certain clays that kill bacteria, including many drug-resistant pathogens.

(Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds, National Science Foundation)

The number of mitoses identified under the microscope in tumors.

(Mitotic Count, NCI Thesaurus)

They identified areas where animals of each species turned white in winter but also other areas where they remained brown in winter.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

Of these 44 loci, 30 are newly discovered while 14 had been identified in previous studies.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Though involved in protein-protein interactions, no common features among target proteins have been identified.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

On analysing the HAPs identified, the researchers discovered that a particular compound, retene (methyl isopropyl phenanthrene) was present in larger quantities than particles smaller than 10 μm.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

Part of a risk that is identified as due to exposure to a defined factor.

(Attributable Risk, NCI Thesaurus)