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    • 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

    • 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

    • recognition :approval
      • give her recognition for trying|he was given credit for his work|give her credit for trying

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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