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usually uncountable, plural recognitions
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). quotations examples
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.
1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […]
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.
December 20, 2021, ETSC, New rules on major EU roads should improve infrastructure safety
Acceptance as valid or true. quotations examples
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 […]
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page vii
Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. examples
Honour, favourable note, or attention. examples
(immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
(Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.