Recognition

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  • noun. The act of recognizing or condition of being recognized.
  • noun. An awareness that something perceived has been perceived before.
  • noun. An acceptance as true or valid, as of a claim.
  • noun. Attention or favorable notice.
  • noun. Official acceptance of the national status of a new government by another nation.
  • noun. The ability of one molecule to attach itself to another molecule having a complementary shape, as in enzyme-substrate and antibody-antigen interactions.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. This time minus the time required for the simple reaction.
  • noun. A repeated cognition.
  • noun. The act of recognizing; a knowing again; consciousness that a given object is identical with an object previously cognized.
  • noun. A formal avowal of knowledge and approval or sanction; acknowledgment: as, the recognition of one government by another as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent.
  • noun. Cognizance; notice taken; acceptance.
  • noun. In Scots law, the recovery of lands by the proprietor when they fall to him by the fault of the vassal; or, generally, any return of the feu to the superior, by whatever ground of eviction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
  • noun. an awareness that something observed has been observed before
  • noun. acceptance as valid or true
  • noun. official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
  • noun. honour, favourable note, or attention
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
  • noun. an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
  • noun. (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
  • noun. the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
  • noun. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
  • noun. approval
  • noun. designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
  • noun. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
  • Word Usage
    "The Trump presidential campaign should go down in history as a huge warning sign for other rich, high-profile jerks who think they can notch their name recognition up to even more astronomic levels by pretending to be presidential timber and making outrageous, headline-grabbing allegations about whoever's running the country."
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