Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • 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 Biology The ability of one molecule to attach itself to another molecule having a complementary shape, as in enzyme-substrate and antibody-antigen interactions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

from 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.

from 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

from 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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English recognicion, knowledge of an event, from Old French recognition, from Latin recognitiō, recognitiōn-, act of recognizing, from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere, to recognize; see recognize.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.

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Examples

  • Now, the recent Columbia grad has the name recognition approaching that of her father.

    Yelena Shuster: A New Kind of Political Daughter Yelena Shuster 2011

  • While his name recognition has been trailing behind other Republican hopefuls, a new poll of registered voters in Minnesota shows he does well against President Obama.

    Pawlenty's Polls Matthew Payne 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Collins: Donald Trump's Legacy: Would You Buy a Used Apartment From This Man? Dan Collins 2011

  • Jess Shaffer Woods Brooklyn's Northside Festival may not enjoy the name recognition of Lollapalooza or the grassy expanses of Coachella, but it benefits from its home base in one of the world's most active melting pots for independent music.

    A Brief Guide to the Northside Festival John Jurgensen 2011

  • “And our name recognition system is now far better than when I invented it, and is better than anything else out there, no matter what anyone says.”

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Collins: Donald Trump's Legacy: Would You Buy a Used Apartment From This Man? Dan Collins 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Collins: Donald Trump's Legacy: Would You Buy a Used Apartment From This Man? Dan Collins 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Collins: Donald Trump's Legacy: Would You Buy a Used Apartment From This Man? Dan Collins 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Collins: Donald Trump's Legacy: Would You Buy a Used Apartment From This Man? Dan Collins 2011

  • Pre 1930s, if you would have said Isreal would take their land back, defend their land, and gain recognition from the world, you would have been called crazy.

    If it’s Friday, it’s time for another round of we-hate-Israel from the Unhinged Left. | RedState 2010

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