[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

recognition \rec`ogni"tion\ re^k`o^gni^sh"u^n, n.
   l. recognitio: cf. f. recognition. see recognizance.
   the act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized;
   acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed;
   notice.
   1913 webster

         the lives of such saints had, at the time of their
         yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of
         god.                                     --hooker.
   1913 webster
see also:
recognizance 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

recognition
     n 1: 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" syn: acknowledgment, acknowledgement
     2: 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" syn: identification
     3: approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given
        credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the
        credits were given at the end of the film" syn: credit
     4: 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" syn: realization, realisation
     5: 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"
     6: 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"
     7: 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"
     8: 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"
see also:
acknowledgment acknowledgement identification credit realization realisation 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

152 moby thesaurus words for "recognition":
   acceptance, acclaim, acknowledgment, action, admission, allowance,
   anagnorisis, angle, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness,
   architectonics, architecture, argument, assimilation, atmosphere,
   attention, avowal, awareness, background, benediction, blurb,
   boost, bringing to light, buildup, casual discovery, catastrophe,
   catching, celebrity, chance discovery, character, characterization,
   cognition, cognizance, color, commendation, complication,
   concession, confession, consciousness, continuity, contrivance,
   credit, crediting, declaration, denouement, design, detection,
   determination, determining, development, device, disclosure,
   discovery, distinguishment, due, eclat, episode, espial,
   excavation, exhumation, exposure, fable, falling action, fame,
   famousness, figure, find, finding, finding out, gimmick, glory,
   good word, grace, honor, honorable mention, hymn, hype,
   identification, incident, insight, invention, kudos, line,
   local color, locating, location, lucky strike, mindfulness, mood,
   motif, movement, mythos, name, noesis, note, notice, notoriety,
   notoriousness, paean, perception, peripeteia, plan, plot, plug,
   popularity, praise, prayer of thanks, profession, promotion,
   publicity, puff, realization, reclame, rediscovery,
   reidentification, renown, report, reputation, repute, revelation,
   right, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, sensibility,
   serendipity, slant, spotting, story, strike, structure, subject,
   subplot, switch, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving,
   the bubble reputation, thematic development, theme, tone, topic,
   treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, twist, uncovering, unearthing,
   vogue, what is owing

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

recognition, contracts. an acknowledgment that something which has been done 
by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter. 
     2. a recognition by the principal of the agency of another in the 
particular instance, or in similar instances, is evidence of the authority 
of the agent, so that the recognition may be either express or implied. as 
an instance of an implied recognition may be mentioned the case of one who 
subscribes policies in the name of another and, upon a loss happening, the 
latter pays the amount. 1 camp. r. 43, n. a; 1 esp. cas. 61; 4 camp. r. 88. 

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