provenance
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From French provenance (“‘origin’”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“‘come forth", "arise’”), from Latin provenio (“‘to come forth’”)
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provenance (plural provenances)
- (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object.
- (art) The history of ownership of a work of art
- (computing) the copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
- (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
- Documentation which supports any of the above.
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
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