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Definitions for verification
ˌvɛr ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənver·i·fi·ca·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confirmation, verification, check, substantiationnoun

    additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

    "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"

  2. verificationnoun

    (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement

Wiktionary

  1. verificationnoun

    The act of verifying.

  2. verificationnoun

    The state of being verified.

  3. verificationnoun

    Confirmation; authentication.

    The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

  4. verificationnoun

    A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.

  5. verificationnoun

    The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

Wikidata

  1. Verification

    Verification in the field of space systems engineering covers two verification processes: Qualification and Acceptance

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. verification

    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

Editors Contribution

  1. verification

    The act and process of to verify.

    The auditor did verify the level of compliance and was very impressed.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of verification in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of verification in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of verification in a Sentence

  1. Raphael Warnock:

    In a moment when they’re trying to make voting harder and harder — trying to cut down early voting, because they saw your strength. Dealing with these voter ID laws, this is not about voter verification, this is about voter suppression. They’re still playing the same games.

  2. Mark Feldstein:

    I think this is the first big war in the digital age that has galvanized Americans' attention, and there's a quantum leap in the toys and tools journalists are using since the last big American war in 2003 in Iraq, but all of this sophisticated technology still relies on the basic journalistic values of accuracy, verification, and fairness. Journalists still gather news piece by piece, often through dogged shoe leather reporting, interviewing witnesses, sifting through information, questioning, it, testing it, authenticating it — and then summarizing, synthesizing and analyzing it all in a clear and concise way to keep the public informed.

  3. Olli Heinonen:

    This is a very unusual IAEA verification approach, which has no reason to be confidential unless a very special reason - proprietary, economic or security - calls for it.

  4. Carly Fiorina:

    Securing the border takes money, manpower, technology, but mostly it takes leadership and political will power, this is the most sophisticated technological nation on the planet and we can't create an employer verification system that works? Of course we can.

  5. Mohammad Javad Zarif:

    The damaged centrifuges in Natanz ... would be replaced with more-advanced centrifuges and more-capable centrifuges, we insist on what we have asked. All sanctions should be lifted, we verify and then we go back to full compliance if we are satisfied with the verification process.

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