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say it: rek-uhg-NISH-uhn
recognition is a noun meaning "the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged". It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
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”
(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”
biology
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for recognition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.