Meaning of 'Recognition'

Meaning of 'Recognition' (Webster Dictionary)

1. Recognition

[ n.]

- The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

1. recognition

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

Example in sentence:

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

Meaning (2):
- the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

Example in sentence:

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

Meaning (3):
- approval

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Meaning (4):
- designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body

Example in sentence:

he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman

Meaning (5):
- (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape

Example in sentence:

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

Meaning (6):
- the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country

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Meaning (7):
- the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

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she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own;
the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work

Meaning (8):
- an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid

Example in sentence:

the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States