<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.</li><li>The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.</li><li>The perception of something as existing or true; realization.</li><li>The acknowledgment of something as valid or as entitled to consideration: the recognition of a claim.</li><li>The acknowledgment of achievement, service, merit, etc.</li><li>Synonyms: acceptance, notice.</li><li>The expression of this in the form of some token of appreciation: This promotion constitutes our recognition of her exceptional ability.</li><li>Formal acknowledgment conveying approval or sanction.</li><li>Acknowledgment of the right to be heard or given attention: The chairman refused recognition to any delegate until order could be restored.</li><li>Psychology: the act or process of retrieving information previously encoded and stored in memory, when cued with the targeted information itself: Compare recall, retrieval.</li><li>The paper studies the effect of storytelling on English learners’ recognition of vocabulary words.</li><li>International Law: an official act by which one state acknowledges the existence of another state or government, or of belligerency or insurgency.</li><li>The automated conversion of information, as words or images, into a form that can be processed by a machine, especially a computer or computerized device.</li><li>Compare optical character recognition, pattern recognition.</li><li>Biochemistry: the responsiveness of one substance to another based on the reciprocal fit of a portion of their molecular shapes.</li></ul>