recognition

Noun

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• (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
    

• 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
    

• approval
  • give her recognition for trying
    
  • he was given credit for his work
    
  • give her credit for trying
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  realization , realisation , credit , identification , acknowledgment , acknowledgement