recognition
Definitions
General English
- noun the fact that someone recognises or acknowledges something
General Science
- noun the ability to recognise someone or something
- noun respect or official acceptance
Aviation
- noun the process of seeing or hearing something or somebody and knowing what it is or who he or she is
Computing
- noun a process that allows something such as letters on a printed text or bars on bar codes to be recognised,
Human Resources
- noun the act of recognising something or somebody
Military
- noun an act of identifying a person or thing
Politics
- noun the formal acceptance by one country of the independent and legal status of another
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