identifying

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adjective

Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

“identifying characteristic”

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of identify
adjectiveidentifying (comparative more identifying, superlative most identifying)

comparative more identifying · superlative most identifying

  1. Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

    identifying characteristic

nounidentifying (plural identifyings)

plural identifyings

  1. An act of identification.

    There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.

    2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page 49
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Chicago

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