recognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: recognitions
Etymology: From Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.
Senses: examples: text: He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
examples: text: The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
text: 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[…]
ref: 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:
glosses: Acceptance as valid or true.
glosses: Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
examples: text: The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
glosses: Honour, favourable note, or attention.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A return of the feu to the superior.
Derived terms: articulatory speech recognition
audio-visual speech recognition
character recognition
fingerprint recognition
gender recognition
gender recognition certificate
intelligent character recognition
inter-recognition
interrecognition
nonrecognition
OCR
optical character recognition
pattern recognition
recognition of prior learning
recognition time
rerecognition
revenue recognition
rule of recognition
self-recognition
speech recognition
underrecognition
unrecognition
voice recognition
Related terms: recognitive
recognitory
identification
type approval