authentication

English

Etymology

From authenticate +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
• (General American)
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɔˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

authentication (countable and uncountable, plural authentications)

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authentication

Wikipedia

1. Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so.

   document authentication

   strong authentication

   The museum required scientific tests for the authentication of the painting.

2. (computing) Proof of identity required by a user to log on to some network or access some resource.

   Coordinate term: identification

   digital authentication

   Online banking uses two-factor authentication.

3. A hallmark or assay-mark on a piece of metalwork.

Synonyms

• authentification

Derived terms

• deauthentication
• nonauthentication
• reauthentication
• two-factor authentication

Translations

proof of the identity of a user logging on to some network

Arabic: مُصَادَقَة f (muṣādaqa) Belarusian: ідэнтыфіка́цыя f (identyfikácyja), аўтэнтыфіка́цыя f (awtentyfikácyja) Bulgarian: идентифика́ция f (identifikácija), автентика́ция f (avtentikácija) Catalan: autenticació f Chinese: Mandarin: 認證 / 认证 (zh) (rènzhèng), 鑒權 / 鉴权 (jiànquán) Czech: autentizace (cs) f, autentifikace f Dutch: authenticatie (nl) f, authentificatie (nl) f Esperanto: aŭtentokontrolo Estonian: tõendus, autentimine Finnish: todennus (fi) French: authentification (fr) f German: Authentifikation (de) f Greek: αυθεντικοποίηση (el) f (afthentikopoíisi), πιστοποίηση (el) f (pistopoíisi), ταυτοποίηση (el) f (taftopoíisi) Hungarian: hitelesítés (hu), autentikáció Italian: autenticazione (it) f Japanese: 認証 (ja) (にんしょう, ninshō) Korean: 인증(認證) (ko) (injeung) Latvian: autentifikācija f Maori: motuhēhēnga Norwegian: Bokmål: autentisering m Persian: اصالت‌سنجی (esâlat-sanji) Polish: uwierzytelnianie n Portuguese: autenticação (pt) f Romanian: autentificare (ro) f Russian: идентифика́ция (ru) f (idɛntifikácija), аутентифика́ция (ru) f (autɛntifikácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: аутентикација f Roman: autentikacija f Slovak: autentifikácia f, autentizácia f Slovene: overjanje n Swahili: uthibitishaji (sw) Swedish: autentisering (sv) c Turkish: kimlik doğrulama (tr), kimlik kanıtlama, tevsik (tr) Ukrainian: ідентифіка́ція f (identyfikácija), автентифіка́ція (uk) f (avtentyfikácija) Vietnamese: xác thực (vi)

something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something

French: certification (fr) f Hungarian: eredetigazolás, eredetiségigazolás (hu) Italian: autenticazione (it) f Maori: hāponotanga, whakatūturutanga Portuguese: autenticação (pt) f Spanish: autenticación (es) f

References

• “authentication”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.