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Definitions: Realisation |
RealisationNoun1. Coming to understand something by thinking about it; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden consciousness of the problem he faced". 2. Making real or giving the appearance of reality. 3. Something that is realized; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "realisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
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Language | The actual expression of a phonological, grammatical or semantic feature or unit, e. g. a "phoneme" by a speech sound, "modality" by auxiliary verbs, "gender" by articles and inflexions, "subject" by a noun phase, "lexeme" by a series of phonemes, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: RealisationSynonyms: actualisation (n), actualization (n), fruition (n), realization (n), recognition (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Realisation |
| Specialty definitions using "realisation": bread-board ♦ considered harmful ♦ evolutionary spectrum ♦ National Research and Education Network ♦ pre-competitive R&D, pre-competitive research and development ♦ surprise index ♦ Viron. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Realisation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (realization), German (production, realization), Swedish (clearance sale, close out, realization, sale, selling of). |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference) |
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| "Realisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Realisation" is used about 690 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 689 | 9,633 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 690 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "realisation": self-realisation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
realisation | 32 |
benefit realisation | 2 |
2002 30 avril concurrence decret effective realisation | 2 |
de logiciel realisation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "realisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تنفيذ (carrying out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 认识 (epistemic, realization, recognise, recognised, recognition, recognize, recognized, Recognizing). (various references) | |
Danish | realisering (actualisation), gennemførelse (realization). (various references) | |
Dutch | realisatie (audited accounts, implementation, realization). (various references) | |
Finnish | realisaatio (realization). (various references) | |
French | réalisation (realization), actualisation. (various references) | |
German | Durchführung (bushing, bushing insulator, carrying out, crossing, duct, enforcement, execution, holding, implementation, insulating bushing, line, operation, performance, prosecution, running, taking, transaction, traverse). (various references) | |
Greek | πραγματοποίηση (accomplishment, actualization, fruition, materialization, realization), ενεργοποίηση (activation, actualisation, facilitation, initialization, reactivation). (various references) | |
Italian | realizzazione (accomplishment, achievement, actualization, carrying out, executing, execution, fruition, implementation, implementation of a system, production, realization, satisfaction, surface generation). (various references) | |
Korean | 현실" (realization). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ealisationray.(various references) | |
Spanish | realización (accomplishment, achievement, actualisation, actualization, attainment, completion, enforcement, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, implementation of a system, materialization, performance, production, realization), actualización (actualisation, actualization, calculation of present value, discounting, to bring up to date, to update, update, updating). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rationalise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: alienators, rationales, senatorial, sinoatrial. | |
-2 letters: aerations, aerialist, alienator, analities, antisolar, laniaries, oralities, orientals, rationale, rationals, relations, saintlier, sanitoria, serotinal, solitaire. | |
-3 letters: aeration, ailerons, airlines, alations, alienist, alienors, antisera, asternal, elations, entrails, inertial, inertias, insolate, intarsia, latrines, lioniser, litanies, nitriles, notarial, notaries, oriental, orinasal, rainiest, ratanies, rational, ratlines, relation, retinals, retinols, roiliest, seatrain, senorita, toenails, tonsilar, trenails. | |
-4 letters: aeolian, aerials, aerosat, aileron, airiest, airline, alastor, alation, alienor, aliners, anestri, anisole, antiair, antiars, antlers, antsier, areolas, aristae, aroints, arsenal, artisan, asteria, atoners, atonies, atresia, elastin, elation, elision, entails, entasia, entoils, erasion, estriol, etalons, inertia, inliers, inosite, iolites, ironies, ironist, isatine, isolate, isoline, laities, lariats, latinos, latrias, latrine, liaison, liniest, linters, lintier, lionise, loaners, loiters, nailers, nailset, nastier, nerolis, nitrile, nitrils, noisier, norites, nostril, oestrin, oiliest, oralist, orients, ratines, rations, ratline, ratlins, realist, reliant, reloans, renails, rentals, retails, retains, retinal, retinas, retinol, retsina, rialtos, salient, saltern, saltier, saltine, saltire, sealant, senarii, senator, siltier, sirloin, slainte, slatier, solaria, solatia, stainer, stearin, sternal, stonier, taenias, tailers, tailors, talions, tenails, toenail, toilers, tolanes, treason, trenail, tsarina. | |
-5 letters: aaliis, aerial, aiolis, airest, alants, alates, alerts, aliens, aliner, alines, aloins, altars, alters, anears, anoles, ansate, antiar, antler, antral, antres, aorist, aortae, aortal, aortas, arenas, areola, ariels, ariose, ariosi, arisen, arista, aristo, aroint, arseno, arsine, arsino, artels, aslant, astern, astral, atonal, atoner, atones, atrial, elains, elints, eloins, enlist, enrols, entail, entoil, eolian, estral, estrin, etalon, inerts, inlets, inlier, insert, insole, instal, instar, instil, inters, intros, iolite, ionise, irones, isatin, lanais, lanate, lanose, lariat, larine, laster, latens, latino, latria, learns, learnt, lentos, lesion, liaise, lianas, lianes, linear, liners, linier, linter, listen, lister, liters, litres, loaner, loiter, loners, lorans, lories, nailer, nairas, narial, nasial, neroli, nerols, nestor, niters, nitres, nitril, nitros, norias, norite, nosier, noters, oaters, oilers, oilier, oleins, orates, oriels, orient, ornate, osteal, ostler, raisin, ratals, ratans, ratels, ratine, ration, ratios, ratlin, realia, reason, reatas, relist, reloan, renail, rental, reoils, resail, retail, retain, retial, retina, rialto, riatas, sailer, sailor, salina, saline, salter, saltie, santir, santol, satire, satori, senior, seniti, senora, serail, serial, silane, sileni, silent, sinter, slater, solate, sonata, sortie, staler, stelai, stelar, sterna, sterol, stolen, stoner, strain, striae, taenia, tailer, tailor, talars, talers, talion, talons, tarnal, tarsal, tarsia, telson, tenail, tenias, tenors, tensor, terais, tiaras, tilers, tineal, tineas, tinier, tinsel, tisane, toiler, toiles, tolane, tolans, tolars, toners, tonier, tonsil, tories, trails, trains, trials, triens, trinal, trines, triols, triose, tronas, trones. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: rationalised, rationalises, rationalizes, realizations, retaliations. | |
+2 letters: abnormalities, alliterations, ameliorations, coplanarities, exhilarations, laterizations, nationalizers, radiationless, rationalities, rationalizers, reasonability, revalidations, serialization, velarizations. | |
+3 letters: aerosolization, cartelizations, derealizations, dissertational, fractionalizes, generalisation, intercalations, internationals, linearizations, operationalism, operationalist, proletarianise, reapplications, recalibrations, reinstallation, renationalizes, secularization, serializations, valedictorians, verbalizations, vernalizations. | |
+4 letters: aerosolizations, allegorizations, atrabiliousness, centralizations, connaturalities, demoralizations, depolarizations, desacralization, dictatorialness, externalisation, federalizations, generalisations, generalizations, hypersalivation, irrationalities, lateralizations, liberalizations, literalizations, melodramatising, mineralizations, neutralizations, operationalisms, operationalists, paranormalities, personalization, postmillenarian, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianizes, reasonabilities, recanalizations, recapitulations, regularizations, rehabilitations, reimplantations, reinstallations, repolarizations, resocialization, revalorizations, revisualization, revitalizations, secularizations, thermalizations, traditionalizes, transliteration. | |
+5 letters: deglamorizations, desacralizations, detribalizations, etherealizations, externalisations, externalizations, gastrointestinal, hypersalivations, internalizations, internationalise, internationalism, internationalist, malpractitioners, materializations, nonmaterialistic, operationalistic, overapplications, personalizations, postmillenarians, proletarianising, reclassification, regionalizations, renormalizations, requalifications, resocializations, revisualizations, totalitarianizes, transliterations, universalization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- .-.. .. ... .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a l i s a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271677875856786758180 |
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