Definitions For Recognition

noun

• Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
• The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
• Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
• An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
• Approval
• The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
• (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
• The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
• The act of accepting that something is true or important or that it exists
• The act of accepting someone or something as having legal or official authority
• The act of knowing who or what someone or something is because of previous knowledge or experience