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interrecognition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪntəˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/ (UK)
• /ɪntɚˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/ (US)
• /ɪntəˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/ (US)

Etymology

From inter- + recognition.

Meanings

1. (formal, rare, uncountable) Mutual or shared recognition or acknowledgment.
   • That noble and only true moderation which comes of the simultaneous and harmonious inter-recognition of all right motives and impulses, was a very conspicuous merit of Swedenborg's life, and it is not less manifest in his teachings, which are excellent remedies for that morbid conscience […] 1857 February 14, C. P., “Emanuel Swedenborg”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 55, number 326, London: John W. Parker & Son, page 176:
   • For example, any given political entity may be recognised by some but not by all states. In a world fractured with discord this factor of interrecognition can indeed become complicated. 1961 October 9, G. Etzel Pearcy, “Forty Newly Independent States: Some Politicogeographic Discussion”, in The Department of State Bulletin, volume 45, number 1163, Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public Affairs, page 605:
   • This interrecognition process may be also involved in some physiological mechanisms of pathogenesis and plant gene transformation: under the circumstance of microgravity, what kind of changes will take place during the induction of callus^([sic]), and if there are some differences in the infection of plant cell^([sic]) by Agrobacterium tumiefaciens. 2022 April 18 [1997], Cheng-Xian Liu, “Simulations and Experiments in Space Biology”, in Wen-Rui Hu, editor, Space Science in China, CRC Press, →ISBN, 23.3.2 Plant-microbe interaction, page 393:

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