English▸ noun the action or process of identifying someone or something or the fact of being identified:
each child was tagged with a number for identification
it may be impossible for relatives to make positive identifications.
▪ a means of proving a person's identity, especially in the form of official papers:
I asked to see his identification.
▪ a person's sense of identity with someone or something:
children's identification with storybook characters.
▪ the association or linking of one thing with another:
the traditional Russian identification of democracy with anarchy.
– ORIGIN mid 17th century : originally from medieval Latin identificat- ‘identified’, from the verb identificare; later from identify.