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Recognition   /rˌɛkəgnˈɪʃən/  /rˌɛkɪgnˈɪʃən/   Listen
Recognition

noun
1.
The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged.  Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment.  "She seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"
2.
The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.  Synonym: identification.  "Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"
3.
Approval.  Synonym: credit.  "He was given credit for his work" , "Give her credit for trying"
4.
Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.  Synonyms: realisation, realization.  "A sudden recognition of the problem he faced" , "Increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
5.
(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape.
6.
The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country.
7.
An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid.
8.
Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.



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"Recognition" Quotes from Famous Books



... old man's proximity, she heard a shuffling at her elbow, and the next moment found that he was overtly observing her as if he had not done so in secret at all. She at once gave him an unsurprised gesture of recognition. 'I saw you some time ago; what a singular coincidence,' ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... marriage ceremony sung by so many Rajput poets, that amounts to little more than going off alone together. But the Russian diplomatic scheme included provision for the maharajah of a wife so irrevocably wedded that the British would not be able to refuse her recognition. So they were married in the presence of seven witnesses in the Russian Embassy, ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... about her love for it and its state of health, we cannot suppose that she really appealed to it on such a grave subject as arithmetical calculation. If she did she got no answer from the cat—not even a sign of recognition; but she did from a bright-faced, fair-haired girl, of about eighteen, who at that moment entered the room, with a teapot in one hand, and a ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... speculations to the somewhat firmer ground of social thought. From the time of its publication, Winstanley leaves the former almost untouched, concentrates his mind almost exclusively on the latter, pleads eloquently for the recognition of natural law in the social, or political world, and steps boldly forward to a life of action, animated and inspired by the conclusions concerning the necessary foundations of a social state based upon righteousness that his previous reflections ...
— The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens
... I had foreseen all that, but it had not disturbed me, as I was certain that the police of Rouen would not be any shrewder than the police of Paris and that I could escape recognition; would it not be sufficient for me to carelessly display my card as "depute," thanks to which I had inspired complete confidence in the gate-keeper at Saint-Lazare?—But the situation was greatly changed. I was no longer free. It was impossible to attempt one of my usual tricks. In one of the compartments, ...
— The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar • Maurice Leblanc


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