verification

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Noun

verification

1. The act of verifying.
2. The state of being verified.
3. Confirmation; authentication.

   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. (legal) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
5. (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

Related terms

• verificationism
• verify
• verity
• verism
• veritable

Translations

• French: vérification
• German: Verifizierung
• Portuguese: verificação
• Russian: прове́рка
• Spanish: verificación

Translations

• German: Verifikation

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