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English to English noun
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the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged |  | Example: 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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the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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approval | | Example: give her recognition for trying
he was given credit for his work
give her credit for trying
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coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | | Example: 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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(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | | Example: territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991
source: wordnet30
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an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | | Example: the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States
source: wordnet30
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designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | | Example: he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman
source: wordnet30
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The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. | | source: webster1913
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