recognition
/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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).
Uncountable
noun
The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned."
- "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."
- "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 sign recognition and automated lane keeping systems."
- "The freight market has changed beyond all recognition from when RAIL was first published. Coal, the then-dominant traffic, has all but disappeared. Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth."
- "The law was a recognition of their civil rights."
- "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[…]"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵneh₃-, recognicion, recognitiōnem