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Identification

noun

The act of designating or identifying something. Synonym: designation.

Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing.

The condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established. "Identification of the gun was an important clue"

The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering. Synonym: recognition. "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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"Identification" Quotes from Famous Books

... disappointed he —or was it Soames?—moved on, and there was the chink again through the parted curtains, which again closed too soon. This went on and on and he never got through till he woke with the word "Irene" on his lips. The dream disturbed him badly, especially that identification of himself ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... I came out on my porch after dinner, feeling content with myself and all the world, I saw a man driving our way in a one-horse top-buggy. In the country it is our custom first to identify the horse, and that gives us a sure clue to the identification of the driver. This horse plainly did not belong in our neighbourhood and plainly as it drew nearer, it bore the unmistakable marks of the town livery. Therefore, the driver, in all probability, was a stranger in these parts. What strangers were in town who would wish to drive ...

— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson

... now prepared to continue our identification of these geometrical interception-bands with the bands observed in the illusion. It is to be noted in passing that this graphic representation of the interception-bands as characteristic effects ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... is a solid and imperial maxim, necessary for the preservation of freedom, necessary for that of empire; but, without union of hearts—with a separate government, and without a separate parliament, identification is extinction, is dishonour, ...

— The Glory of English Prose - Letters to My Grandson • Stephen Coleridge

... soon signs that those who conducted the proceedings evidently did not consider his presence necessary. The witnesses were few; their examinations was perfunctory; they were out of the extemporised witness-box as soon as they were in it. Sir Cresswell Oliver—to give formal identification. Mrs. Wooler—to prove that the deceased man came to her house. One of the foremen of the estate—to prove the great care with which the Squire had searched for traces of the missing man. One of the estate labourers—to prove the actual finding of the body. The doctor—to prove, beyond ...

— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher

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