verification

See also: vérification

English

Etymology

From Middle French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌvɛ.ɹə.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ver‧i‧fi‧ca‧tion

Noun

verification (countable and uncountable, plural verifications)

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

   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. (law) 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.

Derived terms

• address verification service
• criterion of verification
• principle of verification
• verification criterion
• verification principle

Related terms

• verificationism
• verify
• verism
• veritable
• verity

Translations

the act of verifying

Armenian: ստուգում (hy) (stugum), վավերացում (hy) (vaveracʻum) Belarusian: праве́рка f (pravjérka), верыфіка́цыя f (vjeryfikácyja) Bulgarian: прове́рка (bg) f (provérka), потвърждение (bg) n (potvǎrždenie) Catalan: verificació f Cebuano: beripikasyon, pagsuta Czech: ověření n French: vérification (fr) f Georgian: დადასტურება (dadasṭureba), გადამოწმება (gadamoc̣meba) German: Verifizierung (de) f Hebrew: וידוא (vidú) Hungarian: ellenőrzés (hu), vizsgálat (hu) Indonesian: verifikasi (id), pemeriksaan (id), pengecekan (id) Japanese: 確証 (ja) (kakushō), 検証 (ja) (kenshō) Maori: whakatūturutanga, hāponotanga Persian: بررسی (fa) (barresi), درستی سنجی (dorosti sanji) Polish: weryfikacja (pl) f Portuguese: verificação (pt) Russian: прове́рка (ru) f (provérka), верифика́ция (ru) f (verifikácija) Spanish: verificación (es) Ukrainian: пере́ві́рка (uk) f (perévírka), верифіка́ція f (veryfikácija)

the state of being verified

Cebuano: beripikasyon, beripikado German: Verifikation (de) f Hebrew: וידוא (vidú)

confirmation; authentication

Bulgarian: потвърждение (bg) n (potvǎrždenie), заверка (bg) f (zaverka) Catalan: verificació f Cebuano: beripikasyon, kamatuoran Georgian: დადასტურება (dadasṭureba), გადამოწმება (gadamoc̣meba) Hebrew: וידוא (vidú) Hungarian: alátámasztás (hu), igazolás (hu), megerősítés (hu) Indonesian: verifikasi (id)

legal: confirmation by evidence

Bulgarian: удостоверяване (bg) n (udostoverjavane) Cebuano: beripikasyon Hungarian: bizonyítás (hu) Indonesian: verifikasi (id), pemeriksaan (id), pengecekan (id)

math: verification of an equation

Bulgarian: проверка (bg) f (proverka) Cebuano: beripikasyon, pagsuta Dutch: verificatie (nl), bewijs (nl)

See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia