Identification or identify may refer to:

  • Identity document, any document used to verify a person's identity

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Arts, entertainment and media

  • Identify (album) by Got7, 2014
  • "Identify" (song), by Natalie Imbruglia, 1999
  • Identification (album), by Benjamin Ingrosso, 2018
  • Station identification, or ident, radio or TV stations identifying themselves on-air
  • Kill Command, also known as Identify, a 2016 film

Science and technology

  • Identification (information), for data storage
  • Identifiability, in statistics
  • Identification (biology), assigning a taxon to an individual organism
  • Identification scheme, in metadata, used to identify unique records in a set

Social sciences

  • Identification (psychology), a concept in psychoanalysis
  • Identification in rhetoric, a rhetorical theory of persuasion
  • Identification (literature), the audience identifying with a character, or a narrative device

Other special types of identification

  • Animal identification, identifying and tracking specific animals
  • Human identification (disambiguation)
  • Body identification, in forensic science
  • Eyewitness identification, in criminal law
  • Forensic identification, the application of forensic science
  • Identification friend or foe, an identification system designed for command and control
  • Language identification, in natural language processing
  • Particle identification, in experimental physics
  • Programme identification, provided by radio stations
  • System identification, building mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data

See also

  • Identification tag (disambiguation)
  • Identity (disambiguation)
  • ID (disambiguation)