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recognition
English
Etymology
From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k???n???n/
Noun
recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)
- 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).
- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- 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.
- Acceptance as valid or true.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
- Honour, favourable note, or attention.
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
- (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
- (Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.
Derived terms
Related terms
- recognitive
- recognitory
Translations
See also
- recognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- identification
- type approval
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observation
English
Etymology
From Middle English observacion, borrowed from Middle French observacion. Also a borrowing from French observation and a learned borrowing from Latin observ?ti?(n-).Morphologically observe +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bz??ve??(?)n/
- (General American) enPR: ?b'z?r-v??sh?n, -v?sh?n, IPA(key): /??bz??ve???n/, /-?ve??n?/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: ob?ser?va?tion
Noun
observation (countable and uncountable, plural observations)
- The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
- The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
- A remark or comment.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men
- To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men
- A judgement based on observing.
- Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
- Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- observation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin observ?ti?. Synchronically analysable as observer +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.s??.va.sj??/
Noun
observation f (plural observations)
- observation
Further reading
- “observation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
observation (plural observationes)
- observation (something that has been observed)
- observation (act or process of observing)
- observation (regime under which a subject is routinely observed)
observation From the web:
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- what observation is the man in this comic making
- what observation led researchers to propose
- what observation did this geocentric model
- what did charles darwin observe
- what did darwin discover
- what did darwin research
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