| Meaning | evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing. |
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| Narrower | ballistic identification, ballistic fingerprinting, bullet fingerprinting | Identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it |
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| biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification | The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics / characteristics |
| facial profiling | Identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces |
| fingerprint | A generic term for any identifying characteristic |
| imprint | An identification of a publisher |
| linguistic profiling | Using speech characteristics / characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class |
| negative identification | evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not |
| positive identification | evidence proving that you are who you say you are |
| profiling | recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics / characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people |
| Broader | evidence | An indication that makes something evident / evident |
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| Spanish | identificación |
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| Catalan | identificació |
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| Verbs | identify | give the name or identifying characteristics / characteristics of |
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