identifying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of identify

adj

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

   “identifying characteristic”

noun

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.”