verification

verification

See also: vérification

English

Etymology

From Middle French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio

Noun

verification (countable and uncountable, plural verifications)

1. The act 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

• verification principle

Related terms

Terms related to "verification"

• verificationism
• verify

• verity
• verism

• veritable

Translations

the act of verifying

Armenian: ստուգում (hy) (stugum), վավերացում (hy) (vaveracʿum) 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) Maori: whakatūturutanga Persian: بررسی‎ (fa) (barresi), درستی سنجی‎ (dorosti sanji) Portuguese: verificação (pt) Russian: прове́рка (ru) f (provérka), верифика́ция (ru) f (verifikácija) Spanish: verificación (es)

the state of being verified

Cebuano: beripikasyon, beripikado German: Verifikation (de) f

Hebrew: וידוא‎ (vidú)

confirmation; authentication

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

Cebuano: beripikasyon Hungarian: bizonyítás (hu)

Indonesian: verifikasi (id), pemeriksaan (id), pengecekan (id)

math: verification of an equation

Cebuano: beripikasyon, pagsuta

Dutch: verificatie (nl), bewijs (nl)

See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia