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1. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
   - appellation, denomination, appellative
    
2. The act of putting a person into a non-elective position
   "the designation had to be approved by the whole committee";
   - appointment, assignment, naming
    
3. The act of designating or identifying something
   - identification

Derived forms: designations

Type of: conclusion, decision, determination, finding, name

Encyclopedia: Designation