Identity vs. Identification — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Identity and Identification
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Identity
The fact of being who or what a person or thing is
She believes she is the victim of mistaken identity
He knows the identity of the bombers
Identification
The act of identifying.
Identity
A close similarity or affinity
An identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community
Identification
The state of being identified.
Identity
A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.
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Identification
Abbr. ID Proof or evidence of identity.
Identity
The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.
Identification
(Psychology) A person's association with or assumption of the qualities, characteristics, or views of another person or group.
Identity
The condition of being a certain person or thing
What is the identity of the author of the manuscript?.
Identification
The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
In IP protocol, after identification comes authentication.
Identity
The set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known
"The identity of the nation had ... been keenly contested in the period of nationalist opposition to Imperial rule" (Judith M. Brown).
Identification
The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species.
Identity
The awareness that an individual or group has of being a distinct, persisting entity
"He felt more at home thousands of miles from Britain than he did in an English village four miles from his home ... Was he losing his identity?" (Robert Fallon).
Identification
The state of being identified.
The problem's identification was the first step toward dealing with it.
Identity
The fact or condition of being the same as something else
The identity of the two handwriting samples was established by an expert.
Identification
(countable) A particular instance of identifying something.
Information necessary to make a good identification
Identity
The fact or condition of being associated or affiliated with something else
The identity between mass and energy.
Identification
A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
The authorities asked for his identification.
Identity
Information, such as an identification number, used to establish or prove a person's individuality, as in providing access to a credit account.
Identification
A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
Identification with the tribe
Identity
An equation that is satisfied by any number that replaces the letter for which the equation is defined.
Identification
The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.
Identity
Identity element.
Identification
The act of designating or identifying something
Identity
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
Identification
Attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
Identity
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
Identification
Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
Identity
A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
This criminal has taken on several identities.
In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
Identification
The condition of having your identity established;
The thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest
Identity
(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x2−y2 is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
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
Identity
Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
Identity
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
Identity
A well-known or famous person.
Identity
The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.
Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves.
Identity
The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.
Identity
An identical equation.
Identity
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
You can lose your identity when you join the army
Identity
The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known;
Geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
It was too dark to determine his identity
She guessed the identity of his lover
Identity
An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;
The identity under numerical multiplication is 1
Identity
Exact sameness;
They shared an identity of interests
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