What is the meaning of Recess?

A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.

A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.

The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.

A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.

1. A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.
2. An obscure, remote, or secret situation.

   A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.

   An obscure, remote, or secret situation.

   A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.

   A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.

   A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.

   An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.

   A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.

   1. An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.
   2. 1. Leisure, relaxation.
      2. The state of being withdrawn.

         An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.

         1. Leisure, relaxation.
         2. The state of being withdrawn.

            Leisure, relaxation.

            The state of being withdrawn.

            1. A departure from a norm or position.
            2. A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.

            A departure from a norm or position.

            A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.

            An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

            Of a place or time: distant, remote.

            1. To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
            2. 1. To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).

                  To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.

                  1. To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).

                     To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).

                     Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.

                     To conceal, to hide.

                     1. To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
                     2. To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).

                     To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).

                     To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).

                     1. Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.

                        Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.

                        Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.

                        a decision, an agreement, a return (to previous conditions)

                        a recess, a niche

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