1. (

• designation ,
• identification

) the act of designating or identifying something ;

2. (

• identification ,

) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing ;

3. (

• identification

) 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" ;

4. (

• recognition ,
• identification

) 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" ;

5. (

• identification

) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) ;