designation, identification -- (the act of designating or identifying something)
identification -- (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)
identification -- (the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established; "the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"; "identification of the gun was an important clue")
recognition, identification -- (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")
identification -- (the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons))