recognition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.
Inflected forms:
form: recognitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
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.
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.
gloss: Acceptance as valid or true.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
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[…]
gloss: Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Honour, favourable note, or attention.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
gloss: The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A return of the feu to the superior.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
Related words: recognitive
recognitory
identification
type approval
Derived words: allorecognition
audio-visual speech recognition
autorecognition
biorecognition
catch wreck
character recognition
corecognition
derecognition
enantiorecognition
fingerprint recognition
gender recognition
gender recognition certificate
immunorecognition
intelligent character recognition
inter-recognition
interrecognition
irrecognition
misrecognition
nonrecognition
OCR
optical character recognition
pattern recognition
phosphorecognition
recognitional
recognition of prior learning
recognition time
rerecognition
revenue recognition
rule of recognition
self-recognition
speech recognition
underrecognition
unrecognition
voice recognition
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