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recognition Definition

rec·og·ni·tion (rek′əg nis̸h′ən)

noun

    1. a recognizing or being recognized; acknowledgment; admission, as of a fact
    2. acknowledgment and approval, gratitude, etc. in recognition of her services
  2. formal acknowledgment by a government of the independence and sovereignty of a state newly created, as by secession, or of a government newly set up, as by revolution
  3. identification of some person or thing as having been known before or as being of a certain kind
  4. notice, as in passing; greeting; salutation

Etymology: L recognitio < recognitus, pp. of recognoscere: see recognizance

  • recode
  • recodify

recognition Related Forms

re·cog′·ni·to′ry (ri käg′nə tôr′ē) adjective or re·cog′·ni·tive-tiv

recognition Synonyms

recognition

n.

  1. The act of recognizing

    recalling, remembering, identifying, perceiving, perception, verifying, apprehending, acknowledgment, acknowledging, noticing, recollection, memory, identification, recall, reidentification, recognizing, remembrance, mental recurrence, cognizance, realization.

  2. Tangible evidence of recognition, sense 1

    greeting, acknowledgment, identification, perception, admission, verification, comprehension, appreciation, renown, esteem, notice, attention, acceptance, regard, honor, credit, token of appreciation.

recognition Law Definition

n

Acknowledgement that something was authorized to be done;  the acknowledgement of someone’s or something’s rank or status, especially the diplomatic recognition of another country; a subjecting to income tax, under the federal income tax laws. See also realization.

recognition Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • importance: So New Labor's recognition of the importance of work as a method of reducing inequality is not unusual.
  • achievement: A new lectureship is appointed each year as recognition of uncommon achievement and outstanding abilities in the field of human values.
  • excellence: It is a recognition of the excellence of the astrophysics research performed at Queen's.

Converse of object

  • deserve: Anyone can nominate a young person who they think deserves recognition from the local community.
  • gain: To gain academic recognition for their year abroad, each student must have 60 credits.
  • achieve: A valuable resource - and achieving high recognition through the Google search engine.
  • receive: We received unequivocal recognition of the high quality ' Swansea experience ' enjoyed by our students.
  • grow: There is also a growing recognition that diversity is at the core of good community renewal organizations.

Adjective modifier

  • mutual: Our mutual recognition of the respective powers of our objects, however, is a struggle.
  • automatic: In this paper we explore the use of various meeting corpora for the purpose of automatic speech recognition.
  • facial: We are layered voice, fingerprint, facial recognition, and digital signature specialists.
  • widespread: Regrettably, I do not see a widespread recognition of that fact in the current debate.
  • formal: The Panthers did give formal recognition to the need for collective working class action.
  • optical: This article has been scanned and may contained errors due to the process of scanning and optical character recognition.

Noun used with modifier

  • speech: Also speech data gathered during the field trial was analyzed to give speech recognition accuracy.
  • handwriting: Character Recognition - Can be used in handwriting recognition systems.
  • iris: Further in to the future I see the use of iris recognition.
  • voice: Voice recognition enables you to place calls with both hands on the wheel, without taking your eyes off the road.
  • union: Chief among these is the right to trade union recognition.
  • fingerprint: There is an option to upgrade and improve the system, with opportunities for fingerprint recognition and cashless vending.