RECOGNITION : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: RECOGNITION	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for RECOGNITION
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recognition n 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" Synonym(s): recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement 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" Synonym(s): recognition, identification approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying" Synonym(s): recognition, credit 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" Synonym(s): realization, realisation, recognition (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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recognition \Rec`ogni"tion\, n. [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.