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recognition
[ rek-uhg-nish-uhn ]
noun
- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- the identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.
- the perception of something as existing or true; realization.
- the acknowledgment of something as valid or as entitled to consideration:
the recognition of a claim.
- the acknowledgment of achievement, service, merit, etc.
Synonyms: ,
- the expression of this in the form of some token of appreciation:
This promotion constitutes our recognition of her exceptional ability.
- formal acknowledgment conveying approval or sanction.
- acknowledgment of right to be heard or given attention:
The chairman refused recognition to any delegate until order could be restored.
- Psychology. the act or process of retrieving information previously encoded and stored in memory, when cued with the targeted information itself: Compare recall ( def 9 ), retrieval ( def 3 ).
The paper studies the effect of storytelling on English learners’ recognition of vocabulary words.
- International Law. an official act by which one state acknowledges the existence of another state or government, or of belligerency or insurgency.
- the automated conversion of information, as words or images, into a form that can be processed by a machine, especially a computer or computerized device. Compare optical character recognition ( def ), pattern recognition ( def ).
- Biochemistry. the responsiveness of one substance to another based on the reciprocal fit of a portion of their molecular shapes.
recognition
/ ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən; rɪˈkɒɡnɪtɪv /
noun
- the act of recognizing or fact of being recognized
- acceptance or acknowledgment of a claim, duty, fact, truth, etc
- a token of thanks or acknowledgment
- formal acknowledgment of a government or of the independence of a country
- an instance of a chairman granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body, debate, etc
recognition
- In diplomacy, the act by which one nation acknowledges that a foreign government is a legitimate government and exchanges diplomats with it. The withholding of recognition is a way for one government to show its disapproval of another.
Derived Forms
- recognitive, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·Dz·Ծ·پDz· adjective
- ·Dz·Ծ·پ [ri-, kog, -ni-tiv], ·Dz·Ծ·ٴ· [ri-, kog, -ni-tawr-ee], adjective
- ··Dz·Ծ·پDz noun
- un··Dz·Ծ·ٴ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of recognition1
Word History and Origins
Origin of recognition1
Example Sentences
The US deal offers American legal acceptance of Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and de facto recognition of Russian control of other occupied areas, including all of Luhansk region.
There is mourning, but also recognition that the Pope, who lived to 88, died quickly and peacefully.
Mr. Coogler doesn’t have the name recognition to demand 30 theaters with each print costing upwards of $50,000, not to mention the cost of the equipment.
Kennedy took special aim at what he called “the ideology that ... the relentless autism prevalence increases are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition or changing diagnostic criteria.”
Those 1970s laws were “passed under the recognition that we had substantial environmental problems that we couldn’t ignore as a nation,” Goldman said.
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