recognition
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromLatinrecognitionem(accusative ofrecognitio), from stemrecognit,past participle ofrecognoscere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]recognition(usuallyuncountable,pluralrecognitions)
- The act ofrecognizingor the condition of beingrecognized(matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
- He looked at her for ten full minutes beforerecognitiondawned.
- 1900,Charles W[addell] Chesnutt,chapter I, inThe House Behind the Cedars,Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company[…],→OCLC:
- 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 ofrecognition;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 signrecognitionand automated lane keeping systems.
- 2024January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, inRAIL,number1000,page69:
- The freight market has changed beyond allrecognitionfrom whenRAILwas first published. Coal, the then-dominant traffic, has all but disappeared. Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth.
- Acceptanceasvalidortrue.
- The law was arecognitionof their civil rights.
- 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:
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened byrecognitionthat 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[…]
- Officialacceptanceof thestatusof a newgovernmentby that of anothercountry.
- Honour,favourablenote,orattention.
- The charity gained plenty ofrecognitionfor its efforts, but little money.
- (immunology)The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
- (Scots law,historical)Areturnof thefeuto thesuperior.
Derived terms
[edit]- articulatory speech recognition
- audio-visual speech recognition
- character recognition
- fingerprint recognition
- intelligent character recognition
- OCR/optical character recognition
- pattern recognition
- recognition of prior learning
- recognition time
- revenue recognition
- rule of recognition
- self-recognition
- speech recognition
- voice recognition
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
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acceptance as valid or true
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official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
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honour, favorable note, or attention
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See also
[edit]recognitionon Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- identification
- type approval
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