the act of remembering who somebody is when you see them, or of identifying what something is see also brand recognition, facial recognition, name recognition. Name recognition · Face recognition · Facial recognition · Voice recognition

the act of remembering who someone is when you see them, or of identifying what something is. He glanced briefly toward her but there was no sign of ...

There are 15 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun recognition, three of which are labelled obsolete. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions.

​the ability of a computer to read numbers or letters that are printed or written by hand see also optical character recognition.

noun [uncountable] the ability of a computer to read numbers or letters that are printed or written by hand

recognize to know who somebody is or what something is when you see or hear them/​it, because you have seen or heard them/​it before: I recognized him as soon ...

[uncountable] the extent to which the name of a politician, company, brand, etc. is familiar to the public

(also voice recognition) [uncountable] technology that allows a computer to understand spoken words.

The earliest known use of the noun recognition mark is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for recognition mark is from 1889, in the writing of Alfred Wallace ...

voice recognition · ​technology that allows a computer to identify a voice. the computer's voice recognition capability. Topics Computersc1. Want to learn more?