present participle of steal someone's identity

(slang) To assume another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime; to commit identity theft.

plural of identity politician

(UK, law enforcement) A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.

plural of dissociative identity disorder

(sociology) Of, or relating to an ideal type.

(mathematics) Given a binary operation × defined on a set S which also has additive operation + and additive identity 0, the property that a × (b×c) + b × (c×a) + c × (a×b) = 0 for all a, b, c in S.

(topology) a quotient map

(philosophy) The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.

Alternative form of vehicle identification number