Noun
1. the act of designating or identifying something
2. attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
3. evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
4. the condition of having your identity established;
"the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"5. 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"