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Definition of Recognition

1. Noun. The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged. "She seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"

2. Noun. The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering. "Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"

3. Noun. Approval. "Give her credit for trying"

4. Noun. Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly. "Increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"

5. 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"

6. 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"

7. 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"

8. 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"

Definition of Recognition

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

Definition of Recognition

1. Noun. the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized ¹

2. Noun. an awareness that something observed has been observed before ¹

3. Noun. acceptance as valid or true ¹

4. Noun. official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country ¹

5. Noun. honour, favourable note, or attention ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recognition

1. cognition [n -S] - See also: cognition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recognition

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recognised recogniser recognisers recognises recognising recognition recognition factors recognition sequence recognition time recognitional

recognitions recognitor recognitors recognitory recogniz'd recognizabilities recognizability recognizable recognizableness recognizably

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