Identification

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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An act or process that presents an identifier to a system so that the system can recognize a system entity (e.g., user, process, or device) and distinguish that entity from all others.

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Process85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: ID
plural: Identifications
possessive: Identification's
pluralpossessive: Identifications'

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