Look up: Identification

1. identification
   [n] - the condition of having your identity established 2. [n] - evidence of identity 3. [n] - attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
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2. identification
   location of waste sites potentially hazardous to human health and the environment Category: Environment • a method of determining the identity of a called terminal at the beginning of,during or after data transmission Category: Electrical engineering and energy • Indication o...
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3. Identification
   I·den`ti·fi·ca'tion noun [ Confer French identification .] The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.
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4. identification
   <psychology> An unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual endeavors to pattern himself after another person. ... This process is also important in the development of the personality, particularly the superego or conscience, which is modeled largely on the behaviour of adult significant others. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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5. identification
   noun the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
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6. identification
   noun the act of designating or identifying something
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7. identification
   A parameter in a model is identified if and only if complete knowledge of the joint distribution of the observed variables would be enough information to calculate the parameter exactly. If the model has been written in such a way that its parameters can be consistently estimated from the observable...
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8. identification
   (I-den″tĭ-fĭ-ka´shәn) a largely unconscious process, often a defense mechanism, by which an individual takes as his or her own the characteristics, postures, achievements, or other identifying traits of other persons or groups. This is important to development of the superego with awareness and acc...
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9. Identification
   • (n.) The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.
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10. identification
    (from the article `personality`) Among the controlling functions of the ego are identifications and defenses. Children are inclined to behave like the significant adult models in ... One of the important processes that mediates a child`s self-concept is that of identification; this involves the child`s incorporation of the ... [2 rel...
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11. identification
    (from the article `animal communication`) It is important for the recipient to be able to identify the communicator with some degree of precision; if he identifies himself, through displays ...
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12. identification
    an unconscious defense mechanism by which a person patterns himself after another person.
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13. identification
    
    • the act of designating or identifying something
    • attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
    • evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
    • the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
    
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14. identification
    procedures for deducing a mathematical model representing the static and transient behaviour of a system
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15. identification
    the act of segregating and uniquely defining a specific unit within a set of similar functional units
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16. Identification
    The selecting and labeling process. Requirements to be identified as gifted vary between school districts. Generally, a group IQ test is used to screen students. Those scoring high enough (usually about 115 due to the lower reliability and ceiling effect of group tests) are given an individual IQ test. Those scoring above 130 are usually considered gifted without further ado. Those scoring lower m...
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17. identification
    identification, in psychology: see defense mechanism.
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18. Identification
    The psychological response of an audience member when they become directly involved with a character or situation depicted on the screen. Often this is cathartic, purgative and cleansing and is the desired intent of the film product. This is not a mere cooordination or association of similar feeling...
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19. identification
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ī-den′ti-fi-kā′shŭn Definitions: 1. Act or process of determining classification or nature of. 2. A sense of oneness, or psychic continuity with another person or group; one of the freudian defense mechanisms common to everyone, whereby anxiety re...
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20. Identification
    On-dog system whereby a dog may be identified to a record (i.e., microchip, tattoo or DNA).
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21. Identification
    (information) The function of `identification` is to map a known quantity to an unknown entity so as to make it known. The known quantity is called the identifier (or Id) and the unknown entity is what needs identification. A basic requirement for identification is that the Id be unique. Ids ...
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22. Identification
    (literature) `Identification` is a term used in literary and film studies to describe a psychological relationship between the reader of a novel and a character in the book, or between a spectator in the audience and a character on screen. In both cases, readers and spectators see themselves ...
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23. Identification
    (psychology) `Identification` is a psychological process whereby the subject assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed, wholly or partially, after the model the other provides. It is by means of a series of identifications that the personality is constitute...
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24. Identification
    (biology) `Identification` in biology is the process of assigning a pre-existing individual or class name to an individual organism. Identification of organisms to individual names (or codes) may be based on individualistic natural body features (e. g.), experimentally created individual mark...
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