recognition

Plural: recognitions

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"
• 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"
• approval
  • "give her recognition for trying"
• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
  • "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"
  • "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
• (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"
• 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"
• 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"
• 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"
• 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.
• The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
• A return of the feu to the superior.

Examples

• He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
• The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
• The law was a recognition of their civil rights.

Synonyms

acknowledgement, acknowledgment, credit, identification, realisation, realization

Related Words

identification, recognitive, recognitory, type approval