What is the meaning of recognition?

noun

• The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged.
  • usage: "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"
  • synonyms: acknowledgment, acknowledgement
• The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.
  • usage: "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"
  • synonyms: identification
• Approval.
  • usage: "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"
  • synonyms: credit
• Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.
  • usage: "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
  • synonyms: realization, realisation
• Biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape. (
  • usage: "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities"
• The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country.
  • usage: "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991"
• An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid.
  • usage: "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States"
• Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.
  • usage: "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"