Realization

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Realization \Re`al*i*za"tion\ (r[=e]`al*[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
     [Cf. F. r['e]alisation.]
     The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  realization
       n 1: 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: {realisation}, {recognition}]
       2: making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: {realisation},
           {actualization}, {actualisation}]
       3: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by
          someone other than the composer [syn: {realisation}]
       4: a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a
          sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so
          obtained [syn: {realisation}]
       5: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left
          sparsely notated by a composer [syn: {realisation}]
       6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was
          the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: {realisation},
           {fruition}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "realization":
     accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement,
     actualization, alphabet, apparition, appearance, appearing,
     apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, apprehension,
     arising, art, attainment, avatar, awareness, blueprint,
     bringing to fruition, carrying out, charactering, characterization,
     chart, choreography, closure, cognition, cognizance, coming,
     coming into being, coming to be, coming-forth, completion,
     comprehension, conception, consciousness, constitution,
     consummation, contingency, contingent, conventional representation,
     culmination, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction,
     depictment, diagram, discharge, disclosure, dispatch,
     distinguishment, doing, drama, drawing, effectuation, emergence,
     epiphany, establishment, event, eventuality, eventuation,
     execution, exemplification, exposure, fait accompli, figuration,
     formation, forthcoming, foundation, fruition, fulfillment,
     hieroglyphic, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration,
     imagery, imaging, implementation, inauguration, incarnation,
     inception, incidence, insight, installation, institution, issuance,
     letter, limning, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map,
     materialization, materializing, mindfulness, mission accomplished,
     musical notation, noesis, notation, note, notice, occurrence,
     opening, operation, organization, overproduction, perception,
     perfection, performance, pictogram, picturization, plan,
     portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentation, presentment,
     printing, production, productiveness, projection, recognition,
     reidentification, rendering, rendition, representation, revelation,
     rise, rising, schema, score, script, sensibility, setting-up,
     showing, showing forth, success, syllabary, symbol, tablature,
     theophany, topping-off, understanding, unfolding, unfoldment,
     writing