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/aɪdˈɛntɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /aɪˌdɛntəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /aɪˌdɛntəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of designating or identifying something
- evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
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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 - the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
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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
How To Use identification In A Sentence
- So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
- Their aim is twofold: to increase productivity and to improve morale by giving employees a feeling of participation in and identification with the company. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
- And this also involves, crucially, the identification of areas where there are disagreements between agencies over objectives or methods.
- His identification with the hero of the book made him sleepless.
- Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars.
- Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
- This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status.
- Identification includes much less intense and less exclusive attitudes.
- Calves need to be branded for the purposes of identification.
- a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person