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/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

... sported a white cockade in his head-gear and every device that referred to the Empire had been carefully eliminated. Still he was the same soldier, and Marteau recognized him at once as one of the veterans of the regiment. The recognition was not mutual. Captivity, illness, privation had wrought many changes in the officer's face. The man looked at him curiously and wonderingly, however, ...

— The Eagle of the Empire - A Story of Waterloo • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... bridegroom, who, decked in shells and teeth, advanced from the opposite side along the path to meet her, looked up with grateful smiles at the two Europeans. Muriel, in return, smiled her most gracious and girlish recognition. As the bride drew near, she couldn't refrain from bending forward a little to look at the girl's really graceful costume. As she did so, the skirt of her own European dress brushed for a second against the bride's train, trailed carelessly ...

— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen

... the name of King, Lord, and Commons of the sense the latter had of their original inherent, indefeazible natural Rights,7 as also those of free Citizens equally perdurable with the other. That great author that great jurist, and even that Court writer W Justice Blackstone holds that this recognition was justly obtained of King John sword in hand: and peradventure it must be one day sword in hand again rescued and preserved from total destruction ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams

... ones too, leading from one to the other. I began with the potatoes and know all their tricks and their manners. The accompanying sketch is the nearest approach to architecture yet attained. A long way off, you will say; but I insist it is worthier of recognition than the plans of amateurs who begin with the parlor and leave the kitchen out in the cold. It is not for Mr. Fred; he must work out his own kitchen. If Mrs. Fred can't help him, more's the pity. I ...

— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

... purgatory. The melancholy of the occasion cannot be shaken off. It is only the prolonged wail of a last farewell.' All this was said in the old man's ordinary voice, but it seemed to betoken if not feeling itself, a recognition of feeling which the son ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

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