Authorization vs Identity - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Permission.
(countable) An act of authorizing.
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(countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
(government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
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The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
As nouns the difference between authorization and identity
is that authorization is (uncountable) permission while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.authorization
English
Alternative forms
* authorisationNoun
(wikipedia authorization)- I've ''got'' authorization . Call the office and you'll see.
- Can I see your authorization ?
- We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.
Holonyms
* (permission) access control * (an act of authorizing) access control * (government) budgetingReferences
* *identity
English
(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .