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recommendation

noun
/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio. By surface analysis, recommend + -ation.

  1. derived from recommendatio
  2. derived from recomendacion
  3. inherited from recommendacioun

Definitions

  1. An act of recommending.

  2. That which is recommended.

  3. A commendation or endorsement.

    • Your next employer may require a recommendation.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including…

      A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)

      • He made a recommendation about what food to order.
      • We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

    2. Content which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a…

      Content which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a website or app.

The neighborhood

Derived

disrecommendation, letter of recommendation, nonrecommendation, self-praise is no recommendation, subrecommendation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recommendation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recommendation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at recommendation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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