Usually means: Identification of something as familiar.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recognition: Merriam-Webster
  3. recognition, recognition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recognition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recognition: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recognition: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recognition, recognition: Wordnik
  8. recognition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recognition: Wiktionary
  10. recognition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recognition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recognition: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. recognition: Dictionary.com
  14. recognition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. recognition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Recognition (EP), Recognition (family law), Recognition (international law), Recognition (parliamentary procedure), Recognition (sociology), Recognition (tax), Recognition, The Recognition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Recognition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. recognition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. recognition: Rhymezone
  20. Recognition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. recognition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. recognition: FreeDictionary.org
  23. recognition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. recognition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognition: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. recognition: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  6. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. recognition: Legal dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Recognition: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. recognition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. recognition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognition: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Recognition: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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).
noun:  Acceptance as valid or true.
noun:  Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
noun:  Honour, favourable note, or attention.
noun:  (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
noun:  (Scots law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.

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