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recommendation

recommendation

15 3.6
A suggestion made for a user based on their past actions
  • noun
  • /ˌrɛkəˈmɛnˌdeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recomendación
  • The app provides a personalized recommendation for movies based on your viewing history.
  • personalized recommendations
  • product recommendations
  • recommendation system

The only likewise likewise is an app where you can find recommendations for movies, TV.

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Examples

  • We now see ads, not just for traditional search, but in product recommendation sites, such as Amazon and eBay.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I finally watched "Young Frankenstein" on your recommendation.

  • I just wanted to thank you for that book recommendation.

  • And if you want recommendations for products that are not the price point of this, I get that.

  • And now I have some podcast recommendations for you.

  • For instance, Amazon uses a user's purchase history to improve recommendations.

    Academic text (2011)
  • What is your number one recommendation for somebody who's trying to lose weight?

  • Experts in computer simulation and analysis offer many recommendations for dealing with noise.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The current studies are a way to ensure growers are getting the best recommendations based on data.

    Academic text (2005)
  • And we will be giving you recommendations on foods that help you if you're in this study.

Synonyms

suggestion
vsrecommendation
  • Texting
9 2.7

Content or products a computer recommends to a user

is personalized and often presented as a ranked choice based on user data

Antonyms

180 3.0

Not being accepted by people or a group

How Relevant

to match
841 1.0
recommendation
  • Specialized
15 3.6
suggestion
  • Texting
9 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

recommendation = recommend (transparent) = recommend + ation

The computing sense is a modern extension but remains a nominalization of 'recommend' (an automatically produced suggestion), so formation is transparent.

Etymology

Recommendation comes from re- 'again' and commend 'to entrust', which is about putting something forward for attention. So in computing a recommendation is a suggestion the system 'hands' you because it thinks it suits your taste.