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    FACE RECOGNITION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The visual perception of familiar facesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("face recognition" is a kind of...):

    beholding; seeing; visual perception (perception by means of the eyes)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known facesplay

    Example:

    they used face recognition to spot known terrorists

    Synonyms:

    automatic face recognition; face recognition; facial recognition

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("face recognition" is a kind of...):

    biometric authentication; biometric identification; identity verification (the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics)

    Domain category:

    act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

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