identification
pronunciation
How to pronounce identification in British English:
UK [aɪˌdentɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
How to pronounce identification in American English:
US [aɪˌdentɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of designating or identifying something
- attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
- evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
- the condition of having your identity established
- the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
Word Origin
- identification (n.)
- 1640s, "treating of a thing as the same as another," from French identification, probably from identifier (see identify). Sense of "becoming or feeling oneself one with another" is from 1857. Sense of "determination of identity" is from 1859. Meaning "object or document which marks identity" is from 1947 (short for identification tag, card, etc.).
Example
- 1. The sunglint improves the identification of the oil spill .
- 2. I agree that ego identification is a big problem for a lot of people .
- 3. But some have hired shareholder identification companies such as jss to dig up more information .
- 4. One obvious use would be in radiofrequency identification ( rfid ) tags on retail goods .
- 5. We are increasingly familiar with clustering , entity identification , automatic classification and other approaches .