Recognition

n.

1.

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. - Hooker.

Noun	1.	recognition - 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" Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment
	2.	recognition - 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" Synonyms: identification
	3.	recognition - approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the credits were given at the end of the film" Synonyms: credit
	4.	recognition - 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" Synonyms: realization, realisation
	5.	recognition - (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"
	6.	recognition - 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"
	7.	recognition - 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"
	8.	recognition - 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"

RECOGNITION, contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
     2. A recognition by the principal of the agency of another in the particular instance, or in similar instances, is evidence of the authority of the agent, so that the recognition may be either express or implied. As an instance of an implied recognition may be mentioned the case of one who subscribes policies in the name of another and, upon a loss happening, the latter pays the amount. 1 Camp. R. 43, n. a; 1 Esp. Cas. 61; 4 Camp. R. 88.

acceptance, acclaim, acknowledgment, action, admission, allowance, anagnorisis, angle, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, architectonics, architecture, argument, assimilation, atmosphere, attention, avowal, awareness, background, benediction, blurb, boost, bringing to light, buildup, casual discovery, catastrophe, catching, celebrity, chance discovery, character, characterization, cognition, cognizance, color, commendation, complication, concession, confession, consciousness, continuity, contrivance, credit, crediting, declaration, denouement, design, detection, determination, determining, development, device, disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, due, eclat, episode, espial, excavation, exhumation, exposure, fable, falling action, fame, famousness, figure, find, finding, finding out, gimmick, glory, good word, grace, honor, honorable mention, hymn, hype, identification, incident, insight, invention, kudos, line, local color, locating, location, lucky strike, mindfulness, mood, motif, movement, mythos, name, noesis, note, notice, notoriety, notoriousness, paean, perception, peripeteia, plan, plot, plug, popularity, praise, prayer of thanks, profession, promotion, publicity, puff, realization, reclame, rediscovery, reidentification, renown, report, reputation, repute, revelation, right, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, sensibility, serendipity, slant, spotting, story, strike, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving, the bubble reputation, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, twist, uncovering, unearthing, vogue, what is owing

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