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verification

   Also found in: Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.06 sec.
ver·i·fi·ca·tion  (vr-f-kshn)
n.
1. The act of verifying or the state of being verified.
2.
a. A confirmation of truth or authority.
b. The evidence for such a confirmation.
c. A formal assertion of validity.
3. Law An affidavit that attests to the truth of a pleading.

veri·fi·cative adj.

1. In arms control, any action, including inspection, detection, and identification, taken to ascertain compliance with agreed measures.
2. In computer modeling and simulation, the process of determining that a model or simulation implementation accurately represents the developer's conceptual description and specifications. See also configuration management; independent review; validation.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.verification - additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"
cogent evidence, proof - any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something; "if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it"
bed check - a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be
crosscheck - an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources
odd-even check, parity check, redundancy check - a system of checking for errors in computer functioning
checksum - a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
2.verification - (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement
affidavit - written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

verification
Translations
verification [vɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] ncomprobación f; verificación f
verification [vɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] nvérification f
verification [vɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] n (see vt) → Bestätigung f; Überprüfung f
verification [vɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] nverifica


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I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those other phenomena which are supposed to make History interesting; nor would I deny that the strange mixture of the problems of life and the problems of Mathematics, continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend.
But at that instant a nobleman of Sergey Ivanovitch's party said that he had heard that the committee had not verified the accounts, considering such a verification an insult to the marshal of the province.
`But I have experimental verification,' said the Time Traveller.
 
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