recognition
Nouns
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(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
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(n) 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
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(n) approval
- give her recognition for trying
- he was given credit for his work
- give her credit for trying
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(n) 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
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(n) (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
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(n) 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
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(n) 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
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(n) 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