NEGATIVE IDENTIFICATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

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