 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
recognition
noun
1: 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" [syn: {acknowledgment}, {acknowledgement}]
2: 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" [syn: {identification}]
3: approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given
credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the
credits were given at the end of the film" [syn: {credit}]
4: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "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" [syn: {realization}, {realisation}]
5: (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: 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: 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: 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"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Recognition \Rec'og*ni"tion\ (r[e^]k'[o^]g*n[i^]sh"[u^]n), noun
[L. recognitio: cf. F. recognition. See {Recognizance}.]
The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized;
acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed;
notice.
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their
yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of
God. --Hooker.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "recognition":
acceptance, acclaim, acknowledgment, action, admission, allowance,
anagnorisis, angle, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness,
architectonics, architecture, argument, assimilation, atmosphere,
attention, avowal, awareness, background, benediction, blurb,
boost, bringing to light, buildup, casual discovery, catastrophe,
catching, celebrity, chance discovery, character, characterization,
cognition, cognizance, color, commendation, complication,
concession, confession, consciousness, continuity, contrivance,
credit, crediting, declaration, denouement, design, detection,
determination, determining, development, device, disclosure,
discovery, distinguishment, due, eclat, episode, espial,
excavation, exhumation, exposure, fable, falling action, fame,
famousness, figure, find, finding, finding out, gimmick, glory,
good word, grace, honor, honorable mention, hymn, hype,
identification, incident, insight, invention, kudos, line,
local color, locating, location, lucky strike, mindfulness, mood,
motif, movement, mythos, name, noesis, note, notice, notoriety,
notoriousness, paean, perception, peripeteia, plan, plot, plug,
popularity, praise, prayer of thanks, profession, promotion,
publicity, puff, realization, reclame, rediscovery,
reidentification, renown, report, reputation, repute, revelation,
right, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, sensibility,
serendipity, slant, spotting, story, strike, structure, subject,
subplot, switch, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving,
the bubble reputation, thematic development, theme, tone, topic,
treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, twist, uncovering, unearthing,
vogue, what is owing
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