Recognition

4 definitions found

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

  Recognition \Rec`og*ni"tion\ (r[e^]k`[o^]g*n[i^]sh"[u^]n), 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.
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           The lives of such saints had, at the time of their
           yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of
           God.                                     --Hooker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recognition
       n 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 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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RECOGNITION, contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done 
  by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter. 
       2. A recognition by the principal of the agency of another in the 
  particular instance, or in similar instances, is evidence of the authority 
  of the agent, so that the recognition may be either express or implied. As 
  an instance of an implied recognition may be mentioned the case of one who 
  subscribes policies in the name of another and, upon a loss happening, the 
  latter pays the amount. 1 Camp. R. 43, n. a; 1 Esp. Cas. 61; 4 Camp. R. 88.