FACE RECOGNITION as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the visual perception of familiar faces
    Hypernyms(s) face recognition is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • biometric identification by scanning a person’’s face and matching it against a library of known faces
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • they used face recognition to spot known terrorists
    Hypernyms(s) face recognition is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower