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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.

Meaning of 'recognition' (Princeton's WordNet)

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
Example in sentence:
  • give her credit for trying;
  • give her recognition for trying;
  • he was given credit for his work
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 state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
Example in sentence:
  • 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 (7):
- the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
Example in sentence:
  • territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991
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

Nearby Words:

recadency recalcitrant recalcitrate recalcitration recall recallable recallment recant recantation recanted

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