Meanings
alternative inter-recognition
- formalrareuncountableMutual or shared recognition or acknowledgment.
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 6052 more examples
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 28, C. P., “Emanuel Swedenborg”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 55, number 326, London: John W. Parker & Son, page 176This 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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