Dictionary

recognition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
   • Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted. 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, “A Stranger from South Carolina”, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 8:
   • He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
   • December 20, 2021, ETSC, New rules on major EU roads should improve infrastructure safety One omission is any language on getting roads ready for automated systems in transport. ETSC had called for provisions on ensuring that road markings, signs and infrastructure take into account the specific needs of e.g. traffic sign recognition and automated lane keeping systems.
   • The freight market has changed beyond all recognition from when RAIL was first published. Coal, the then-dominant traffic, has all but disappeared. Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth. 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
2. (uncountable, usually) Acceptance as valid or true.
   • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…] 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
   • The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
3. (uncountable, usually) Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
4. (uncountable, usually) Honour, favourable note, or attention.
   • The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
5. (uncountable, usually) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
6. (historical, qualifier:Scots law, uncountable, usually) A return of the feu to the superior.

Forms

Deriveds

gender recognition certificate · voice recognition · immunorecognition · biorecognition · enantiorecognition · corecognition · revenue recognition · pattern recognition · interrecognition · OCR · optical character recognition · intelligent character recognition · recognitional · rule of recognition · self-recognition · catch wreck · character recognition · irrecognition · rerecognition · unrecognition · recognition of prior learning · phosphorecognition · recognition time · fingerprint recognition · inter-recognition · misrecognition · underrecognition · speech recognition · autorecognition · gender recognition · derecognition · nonrecognition · allorecognition

Relateds

recognitive · type approval · recognitory · identification

Translations (98)

ru призна́ние (honour, favorable note, or attention) · sk uznanie (honour, favorable note, or attention) · de Anerkennung (honour, favorable note, or attention) · nl erkenning (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · pt reconhecimento (acceptance as valid or true) · cmn 承認 /承认 (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · fi tunnistaminen (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ca reconeixement (honour, favorable note, or attention) · ro recunoaștere (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · tr takdir (honour, favorable note, or attention) · fi tunnustus (honour, favorable note, or attention) · da erkendelse (acceptance as valid or true) · eo honora mencio (honour, favorable note, or attention) · eo rekono (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · hu elismerés (honour, favorable note, or attention) · hy ճանաչում (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · el αναγνώριση (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · fi tunnustus (acceptance as valid or true) · gl recoñecemento (acceptance as valid or true) · pt reconhecimento (honour, favorable note, or attention) · ru призна́ние (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · gl recoñecemento (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · sk rozpoznanie (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · te గుర్తింపు (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · fi tunnustaminen (acceptance as valid or true) · bn স্বীকৃতি (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · cs uznání (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · gl recoñecemento (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · cmn 認出 /认出 (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · fi tunnustus (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · sv erkännande (acceptance as valid or true) · bg призна́ние (honour, favorable note, or attention) · de Anerkennung (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · fr reconnaissance (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ru узнава́ние (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · cs uznání (honour, favorable note, or attention) · ga aitheantas (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · vi công nhận (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · sv igenkännande (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · uk упізнава́ння (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · de Erkennung (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · nl erkenning (acceptance as valid or true) · sv erkännande (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · tr tanınma (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ca reconeixement (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · be прызна́нне (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · bg разпозна́ване (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ro recunoștință (honour, favorable note, or attention) · hu elismerés (acceptance as valid or true) · pt reconhecimento (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · eo agnosko (acceptance as valid or true) · uk розпізнава́ння (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · eo agnosko (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · pt reconhecimento (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · fi kunnianosoitus (honour, favorable note, or attention) · ko 승인 (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · tr kabul (acceptance as valid or true) · ro recunoaștere (acceptance as valid or true) · hy ճանաչում (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · uk визнаття́ (acceptance as valid or true) · ru призна́ние (acceptance as valid or true) · da anerkendelse (honour, favorable note, or attention) · nl erkenning (honour, favorable note, or attention) · da genkendelse (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · cs rozpoznání (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · eu aintzatetsi (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · tr tanınma (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · bg одобре́ние (honour, favorable note, or attention) · uk впізнава́ння (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · fi huomio (honour, favorable note, or attention) · gl recoñecemento (honour, favorable note, or attention) · ro apreciere (honour, favorable note, or attention) · fi tunnistus (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ru одобре́ние (acceptance as valid or true) · de Wiedererkennen (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · bg прие́мане (acceptance as valid or true) · hu felismerés (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · hu elismerés (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · ko 인식 (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · ko 승인 (acceptance as valid or true) · ja 承認 (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · bg призна́ване (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · hy գնահատություն (honour, favorable note, or attention) · fi tunnustaminen (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · sk uznanie (acceptance as valid or true) · de Erkennen (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · da anerkendelse (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · th การจำได้ (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · be прызна́нне (acceptance as valid or true) · cs uznání (acceptance as valid or true) · ro recunoaștere (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · nl herkenning (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · es reconocimiento (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized) · de Anerkennung (acceptance as valid or true) · sk uznanie (official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country) · uk визнава́ння (acceptance as valid or true) · uk визна́ння (acceptance as valid or true) · ru распознава́ние (the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized)