Realisation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of realization. UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem."

  2. 2
    something that is made real or concrete wordnet
  3. 3
    making real or giving the appearance of reality wordnet
  4. 4
    the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer wordnet
  5. 5
    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 wordnet
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  1. 6
    coming to understand something clearly and distinctly wordnet
  2. 7
    a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer wordnet

Etymology

From French réalisation, from Middle French, as if realise + -ation.

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