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FACE RECOGNITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The visual perception of familiar faces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("face recognition" is a kind of...):
beholding; seeing; visual perception (perception by means of the eyes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces
Example:
they used face recognition to spot known terrorists
Synonyms:
automatic face recognition; face recognition; facial recognition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("face recognition" is a kind of...):
biometric authentication; biometric identification; identity verification (the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
