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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: realization, realisation]
2: 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, realisation, recognition]
3: 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, realisation]
4: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: realization, realisation]
5: making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation]
6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, realisation, fruition]

Merriam Webster's

chiefly British variant of realization