REALIZATION | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of realization in English realizationnoun (UK usually realisation) uk /ˌrɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌriː.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/

realization noun (BECOMING AWARE)

Add to word list Add to word list C1 [ C usually singular ] the fact or moment of starting to understand a situation: [ + that ] The realization was dawning that this was a major disaster. Understanding and comprehending

• appreciation for something
• apprehend
• apprehensible
• apprehension
• astutely
• catch
• colour
• dot
• handle
• I feel you idiom
• incoherently
• keenness
• keep someone up phrasal verb
• know a hawk from a handsaw idiom
• taken
• tease
• tease something apart phrasal verb
• to get a handle on something idiom
• to have a handle on something idiom
• tune

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realization noun (ACHIEVEMENT)

C2 [ U ] the act or moment of achieving something you planned to do or hoped for: To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream. an achievement

• achievementFinishing the marathon in 10th place was an incredible achievement.
• accomplishmentWinning the award was a major accomplishment.
• attainmentsThe faculty were distinguished for their scientific attainments.
• attainmentThe study will track each student's educational attainment.
• realizationUK It was the realisation of all her dreams.
• fulfilmentUK The trip was the fulfilment of his dreams.

See more results » Causing things to happen

• activate
• activation
• actuation
• add fuel to something
• agent
• at the instigation of someone
• gift
• give rise to idiom
• hyperstimulate
• hyperstimulation
• implement
• launch pad
• proximate cause
• proximately
• put someone to something idiom
• Pygmalion effect
• reactivate
• render
• spark
• spell

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realization noun (MONEY)

[ U ]   finance & economics   specialized the act of getting money by selling something: Even the realization of all his assets would not be enough to prevent financial ruin. Selling

• auction
• Black Friday
• bundle
• bundle something with something
• bundling
• concession
• hock
• missell
• misselling
• MLM
• network marketing
• outsell
• ply
• salable
• saleable
• sales drive
• sales pitch
• salesmanship
• sell something off phrasal verb
• sting

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realization noun (MUSIC)

[ C or U ]   music   specialized the act of writing or playing a full musical part from a figured bass (= a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them showing which chords to play), or the musical part written: Realization is the art of creating a complete harmonic accompaniment from a figured bass. Competent Baroque performers were expected to improvise realizations at sight. [ C or U ]   music   specialized the way that a song or piece of music is performed or arranged, or the act of performing or arranging it in a particular way: The thesis examines Benjamin Britten's realizations of several of Henry Purcell's songs. The musical director deserves praise for the excellent realization of Porter's timeless score. Writing, reading & studying music

• anti-musical
• bar
• canonical
• composition
• compositional
• musically
• musicologist
• musicology
• non-musical
• orchestrate
• reorchestrate
• reorchestration
• rescore
• self-composed
• sheet music
• tablature
• tone-deaf
• transpose
• transposition
• uncanonical

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realization noun (PHONETICS)

[ C or U ]   language   specialized the way that a speech unit is pronounced when it is spoken, or the act of pronouncing it in a particular way: How does a child learn variant realizations of the same phonological items? There are regional differences in the realization of the schwa. Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

• accommodation
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alveolar
• apheresis
• bilabial
• diphthong
• glottal stop
• ingressive
• interdental
• intrusive
• labial
• mispronounce
• phonotactic
• phonotactics
• plosive
• postalveolar
• postconsonantal
• the International Phonetic Alphabet
• unpronounceable

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realization | American Dictionary

realizationnoun us /ˌri·ə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən/ Add to word list Add to word list [ C usually sing ] the state of being aware of or understanding a situation: You soon come to the horrible realization that the flat skinny letters mean, No, you are not accepted. [ U ] the act of achieving something you hoped or planned for: Playing in the major leagues was the realization of his dreams. (Definition of realization from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

realization | Business English

realizationnoun [ S or U ] (also UK realisation) uk /ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌrɪələˈzeɪʃən/ Add to word list Add to word list FINANCE, ACCOUNTING the process of selling assets, investments, etc. for cash: realization of sth In the event of default or bankruptcy by the counterparty to the agreement, realization of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. Should a company aim for high volume or high price realization? the process of achieving something you planned to do or hoped for: The realization of financial goals is often the result of satisfying customers and stakeholders. Real-time data capture of consumer response to advertising is a phenomenon now tantalizingly close to realization. (Definition of realization from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of realization

realization Certainly, prosodic prominence can warp vowel realizations in ways other than those explored here. From the Cambridge English Corpus The lazy constraint and its values at different levels, as well as the effort costs of various surface realizations, are motivated by articulatory difficulty. From the Cambridge English Corpus Pensions are computed through applying net replacement rates to the last wage (averaged for the realizations of the wage shock). From the Cambridge English Corpus We identify these realizations as those where fewer than five horses became infected. From the Cambridge English Corpus A feeling of lost opportunities and the gap between one's early hopes and dreams and realizations that time has gone forever and hope is lost. From the Cambridge English Corpus In particular, dynamic panel techniques use instruments based on previous realizations of explanatory variables. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, for example, the first realizations of industrial robots, rehabilitation robots and the like have been left out. From the Cambridge English Corpus The distribution is obtained from stochastic realizations of each particular scenario. From the Cambridge English Corpus Average realizations for each style are represented by the larger symbols. From the Cambridge English Corpus Essential examples of (global or local) po-spaces are provided by cubical complexes and their geometric realizations. From the Cambridge English Corpus As it is based on semantic categories, it is helpful in detecting the varying linguistic realizations that correspond to each evaluative category. From the Cambridge English Corpus Clearly, a straightforward ensemble average of the time-referenced signal realizations will tend t o smear out the spot boundary as well as its distinguishing features. From the Cambridge English Corpus Figure 3 shows that the marginal distribution of each of the posterior realizations of the residuals are fairly close to the standard normal distribution. From the Cambridge English Corpus The table shows mean values over all realizations, but minima tell a different story. From the Cambridge English Corpus The shocks t are normally distributed with variance 2 = 0.25; the 50 realizations t of the random series were the same for each market. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of realization These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of realization?

Translations of realization

in Chinese (Traditional) 意識, 明白, 認識到… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 意识, 明白, 认识到… See more in Spanish comprensión, realización, realización [feminine… See more in Portuguese compreensão, realização, compreensão [feminine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian जाणीव, कमाई… See more 認識, 気づき, 理解… See more idrak, anlama, farkında olma… See more prise [feminine] de conscience, réalisation [feminine], prise de conscience… See more comprensió, realització… See more besef, verwezenlijking… See more ஒரு சூழ்நிலையைப் புரிந்துகொள்ளத் தொடங்கும் உண்மை அல்லது தருணம், நீங்கள் செய்ய திட்டமிட்ட அல்லது எதிர்பார்த்த ஒன்றை அடையும் செயல் அல்லது தருணம்… See more (किसी परिस्थिति को समझने की) अनुभूति, आभास, (कुछ जो योजित था उसे हासिल करने का आभास) कार्य सिद्धि… See more અનુભૂતિ, સિધ્ધિ… See more erkendelse, opfyldelse… See more förverkligande, insikt… See more merealisasikan… See more die Erkenntnis… See more erkjennelse [masculine], realisering [masculine], virkeliggjøring [masculine]… See more احساس, ادراک, حصول… See more усвідомлення, розуміння… See more గ్రహింపు / పరిస్థితిని అర్థం చేసుకోవడం ప్రారంభించిన క్షణం, మీరు చేయాలనుకున్న లేదా ఆశించిన పనిని సాధించే చర్య లేదా క్షణం… See more উপলব্ধি, বাস্তবায়ন… See more pochopení, uskutečnění… See more kesadaran… See more ความตระหนัก… See more sự nhận ra… See more świadomość, spełnienie, realizacja… See more 깨달음, 실현… See more percezione, consapevolezza, realizzazione… See more Need a translator?

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  • Noun 
    • realization (BECOMING AWARE)
    • realization (ACHIEVEMENT)
    • realization (MONEY)
    • realization (MUSIC)
    • realization (PHONETICS)
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• Business   Noun
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