Identification

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Identification or identify may refer to:

Documents

• Identity document, any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's identity
  • Photo identification, an identity document that shows a photograph
• Identification tag (disambiguation), one of several tags used to identify a person

Investigation

• Body identification, in Forensics, the process of identifying a body
• Eyewitness identification, in courts, testimony from a person that witnessed an event
• Forensic identification, in forensics, using trace evidence to identify what object left it behind
• Identification (of handwriting), as in Questioned document examination

Tracking and inventory management

• Animal identification, various means of tracking specific animals
• Identification scheme, in information management, a system to identify items
• Radio-frequency identification, an electronic device to track objects, such as inventory in a store
• Specific Identification, a method of determining inventory cost
• Ultrasound Identification, a location system to determine the location of an object within a room devices

Mathematics

• Identification (information), the capability to find, retrieve, report, change, or delete specific data without ambiguity
• Identifiability, a property whereby the parameters of a statistical model are uniquely implied by the joint probability distribution of the data
• Parameter identification problem, a concept in econometrics

Science and engineering

• Identification (biology), the process of assigning a pre-existing individual or class name to an individual organism
• Identification friend or foe, in military communications, - systems aimed at automatic identification of a vehicle as friendly or enemy
• Identification key, in biology, a printed or computer device that helps identify biological entities, such as animals and plants
• Hazard identification, the process of identifying hazards in order to reduce the danger
• Language identification, in computing, the process of determining the natural language of a given content
• Identification of human individuals, a concept in biometrics
• System identification, in control engineering, a set of mathematical models of complex systems
• Particle identification, in experimental physics, the process of identifying a particle

Social sciences

• Gender identity, a person's sense of gender
• Identification (psychology), a concept in psychoanalysis
• Projective identification, a concept in psychology

Media

• Station identification, the practice of any type of radio or television station or network identifying itself
• Programme identification, a data stream included in radio broadcasts to show the radio station name or the current song playing
• "Identify", a 1999 song by Natalie Imbruglia

Other uses

• Identification (literature), a psychological relationship between the reader of a novel and a character in the book
• Organizational identification, a person's identity as part of an organizations
• Party identification, a person's attachment to a political party
• Weed identification (disambiguation)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Identification
• Identity (disambiguation)
• Wikipedia:Identification