RECOGNITION

recognition

(noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; “he was unable to make his motion because he couldn’t get recognition by the chairman”

recognition, identification

(noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; “a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces”; “experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer”

realization, realisation, recognition

(noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; “a growing realization of the risk involved”; “a sudden recognition of the problem he faced”; “increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases”

recognition

(noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; “the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States”

recognition, credit

(noun) approval; “give her recognition for trying”; “he was given credit for his work”; “give her credit for trying”

recognition

(noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; “territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala’s recognition of Belize in 1991”

recognition

(noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; “molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities”

recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement

(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; “the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work”; “she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity)

acceptance as valid or true

official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country

honour, favourable note, or attention

(immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.

(Scotland, legal, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.

Source: Wiktionary

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Rec`og*ni"tion, n. Etym: [L. recognitio: cf. F. recognition. See Recognizance.]

Definition: The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. Hooker.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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