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IDENTIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of designating or identifying something
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):
determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):
diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)
Derivation:
identify (identify as in botany or biology, for example)
identify (conceive of as united or associated)
identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):
identity; individuality; personal identity (the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity)
Derivation:
identify (consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
Example:
experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer
Synonyms:
identification; recognition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):
memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):
identity (the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known)
speaker identification; talker identification (identification of a person from the sound of their voice)
Derivation:
identify (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):
evidence (an indication that makes something evident)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "identification"):
ballistic fingerprinting; ballistic identification; bullet fingerprinting (identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it)
biometric authentication; biometric identification; identity verification (the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics)
imprint (an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page)
positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance)
negative identification (evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection)
facial profiling (identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces)
fingerprint (a generic term for any identifying characteristic)
linguistic profiling (using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class)
profiling (recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people)
Derivation:
identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
Example:
identification of the gun was an important clue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("identification" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Derivation:
identify (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)
identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)
Context examples:
Terminology relevant to tumor identification results.
(CDISC SDTM Tumor Identification Result Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Terminology associated with the tumor identification test code codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC SDTM Tumor Identification Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
To-morrow some further evidence may help us to an identification.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The identification of a lesion which has not been previously seen or characterized.
(New Lesion Identification, NCI Thesaurus)
The identification of a tumor that is incapable of being measured at baseline.
(Non-Measurable Tumor Identification, NCI Thesaurus)
A software package for the statistical validation of peptide identifications made by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and database searching.
(PeptideProphet, NCI Thesaurus)
The unique identification of a package in a specific context.
(Package Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)
The identification of a disease or illness by examining the signs and symptoms.
(Performed Diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)
The excipients are added to facilitate administration or manufacture, improve product delivery, promote the consistent release and bioavailability of the drug, enhance stability, assist in product identification, or enhance other product characteristics.
(Pharmaceutical Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)
A study of identification and analysis of genomic variations that affect the efficacy of a drug.
(Pharmacogenomic Study, NCI Thesaurus)
