Crossword clues for realisation
Wiktionary
n. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of realization English)
WordNet
n. a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: realization]
coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, recognition]
a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained [syn: realization]
the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: realization]
making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization, actualization, actualisation]
something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, fruition]
Wikipedia
The realisation of a unit of measure is the conversion of its definition into reality. The International vocabulary of metrology identifies three distinct ways in which this is done - the first being the realisation of a measurement unit from its definition, the second the reproduction of measurement standards and the third the process of actually adopting a particular artefact as a standard.
In the case of the International System of Units, realisation techniques for the base units base are maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
Usage examples of "realisation".
Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realisation drove into my brain.
Single words too we plagiarise when we use them without realisation and mastery of their meaning.
Hard on the heels of that came the sickening realisation that there had been an Asdic operator inside there.
They wept as pitiful, charred faces, turned up towards the Ulysses and alight with joy and hope, petrified into incredulous staring horror, as realisation dawned and the water closed over them.
His relations with his father never warm had frosted, and a dip in Bentley fortunes never explicated had led him to a realisation that threats of excommunication from the family and the home were not idle ones.
In the crystallisation of this nomenclature there has undoubtedly been present in the popular mind some dim, half-unconscious realisation that there are depths of slinking, whining, fawning, and servile ignobility which no kith of the lion and the leopard could ever attain.
His left ear was brindledI sighed as the realisation hit me, an epiphanylike the time I figured out Annie `Wild Thing' Behringer dyed her pubic hair.
With the guilty pleasure comes the realisation that the single-mindedness which normally characterises his approach to work has deserted him.
Not that I thought at first, just looked at the rising sun throwing light on the peaks and the canyons below, watched the weak light splinter off the ice fields of Seneschal, and let the silence penetrateand with it the realisation that I was afraid.
I felt that way because there had abruptly, paralysingly flashed on me the realisation that would have come to me half an hour ago if i hadn't been so busy commiserating with myself on the misery i was suffering.
Keen though he was to make his mark in boxing, or in anything, Nicholas had been disturbed by the realisation that from the first donning of the gloves, it was intended that he boxed with the pink-cheeked, puffing Piffer himself.
Immediately, the telegraphs jangled, the water boiled whitely at the Sirrus's stern-shocked realisation of its imminence and death itself must have been only a merciful hair's-breadth apart for the unfortunate man in the water, and then the destroyer was clear, sheering sharply away from the Electra.
And the blessed realisation that the dawn was bringing its usual slackening of the tramontane - and that the sail down to leeward was the lively.
I am well aware at such moments that I resemble the proverbial small child with its nose pressed against a sweet-shop window, and hope that I draw some humility from this realisation.
I stood on the sunless desert, beneath a sky black from horizon to horizon, a rolling, heavy sulphurous sky made solid and soiled, packed with the thick, stinking effluence squeezed erupting from the earth's invaded bowels, and in that darkness at noon, that planned, deliberated disaster, with the bale-fire light of the burning wells flickering in the distance with a dirty, guttering flame, I was reduced to a numb, dumb realisation of our unboundedly resourceful talent for bloody hatred and mad waste, but stripped of the means to describe and present that knowledge.