recognition

plural recognitions

1. uncountableusuallyThe act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

   He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

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   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

   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. uncountableusuallyAcceptance as valid or true.

   The law was a recognition of their civil rights.

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   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

3. uncountableusuallyOfficial acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
4. uncountableusuallyHonour, favourable note, or attention.

   The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

5. uncountableusuallyimmunologyThe propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
6. historicaluncountableusuallyScots lawA return of the feu to the superior.