Recognition is a synonym of acknowledgment
As nouns the difference between recognition and acknowledgment is
that recognition is
the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized while acknowledgment is
the act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession
Acknowledgment / [Alternative form: acknowledgement] - Noun
The act of acknowledging;
admission; avowal; owning; confession.
The act of owning or
recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards
the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
An award or other
expression or token of appreciation.
An owning with gratitude
of a benefit or an obligation (as in "acknowledgment" of a favor).
A message from the
addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been
received and understood, as a wedding invitation's acknowledgment .
(Telecommunications|computing|networking) A response (ACK) sent by a
receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission.
An owning as genuine or
valid; an avowing or admission in legal form (as in "acknowledgment of a
deed").
(legal) A formal
statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal
requirement or procedure.
Synonyms: act of acknowledging) confession, concession, recognition, admission, avowal, recognizance,
Recognition
(Noun):
the act of recognizing or
the condition of being recognized
He
looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
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.
an awareness that
something observed has been observed before
acceptance as valid or
true: The
law was a recognition of
their civil rights.
With
fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognitionthat
the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives
one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions.
Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you
see is what you get
official acceptance of
the status of a new government by that of another country
honour, favourable note,
or attention - The
charity gained plenty of recognitionfor
its efforts, but little money.
Derived terms: * character recognition * OCR / optical character recognition
Source: http://wikidiff.com/acknowledgment/recognition
