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recognition
[ rek-uhg-nish-uhn ]
noun
- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- the identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.
- the perception of something as existing or true; realization.
- the acknowledgment of something as valid or as entitled to consideration:
the recognition of a claim.
- the acknowledgment of achievement, service, merit, etc.
Synonyms: ,
- the expression of this in the form of some token of appreciation:
This promotion constitutes our recognition of her exceptional ability.
- formal acknowledgment conveying approval or sanction.
- acknowledgment of right to be heard or given attention:
The chairman refused recognition to any delegate until order could be restored.
- Psychology. the act or process of retrieving information previously encoded and stored in memory, when cued with the targeted information itself: Compare recall ( def 9 ), retrieval ( def 3 ).
The paper studies the effect of storytelling on English learners’ recognition of vocabulary words.
- International Law. an official act by which one state acknowledges the existence of another state or government, or of belligerency or insurgency.
- the automated conversion of information, as words or images, into a form that can be processed by a machine, especially a computer or computerized device. Compare optical character recognition ( def ), pattern recognition ( def ).
- Biochemistry. the responsiveness of one substance to another based on the reciprocal fit of a portion of their molecular shapes.
recognition
/ ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən; rɪˈkɒɡnɪtɪv /
noun
- the act of recognizing or fact of being recognized
- acceptance or acknowledgment of a claim, duty, fact, truth, etc
- a token of thanks or acknowledgment
- formal acknowledgment of a government or of the independence of a country
- an instance of a chairman granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body, debate, etc
recognition
- In diplomacy, the act by which one nation acknowledges that a foreign government is a legitimate government and exchanges diplomats with it. The withholding of recognition is a way for one government to show its disapproval of another.
Derived Forms
- recognitive, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Dz·Ծ·پDz· adjective
- ·Dz·Ծ·پ [ri-, kog, -ni-tiv], ·Dz·Ծ·ٴ· [ri-, kog, -ni-tawr-ee], adjective
- ··Dz·Ծ·پDz noun
- un··Dz·Ծ·ٴ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of recognition1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of recognition1
Example Sentences
"That generation - when you consider what they went through for us to have the lifestyle that we've got today, they deserve the recognition which a lot of them never got," he said.
Susan says the settlement was never about money but the recognition a mistake had been made all those years ago.
This is before the Progressive Era, and before the New Deal that made for government regulation of the economy and safe labor conditions, minimum wages and things like that; a recognition of unions.
The building has been given further recognition and protection by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.
The economic shift also under way, he said, needed the "same recognition".
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