Recognition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of recognizing or condition of being recognized.
  • n. An awareness that something perceived has been perceived before.
  • n. An acceptance as true or valid, as of a claim: a recognition of their civil rights.
  • n. Attention or favorable notice: She received recognition for her many achievements.
  • n. Official acceptance of the national status of a new government by another nation.
  • n. Biology The ability of one molecule to attach itself to another molecule having a complementary shape, as in enzyme-substrate and antibody-antigen interactions.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
  • n. an awareness that something observed has been observed before
  • n. acceptance as valid or true
  • n. official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
  • n. honour, favourable note, or attention
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of recognizing; a knowing again; consciousness that a given object is identical with an object previously cognized.
  • n. A formal avowal of knowledge and approval or sanction; acknowledgment: as, the recognition of one government by another as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent.
  • n. Cognizance; notice taken; acceptance.
  • n. In Scots law, the recovery of lands by the proprietor when they fall to him by the fault of the vassal; or, generally, any return of the feu to the superior, by whatever ground of eviction.
  • n. A repeated cognition.
  • n. This time minus the time required for the simple reaction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
  • n. an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
  • n. (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
  • n. the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
  • n. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
  • n. approval
  • n. designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
  • n. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
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