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NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative identification mean? 

NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejectionplay

  Familiarity information: NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person

Hypernyms ("negative identification" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)


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