verification

See also vérification

English

Etymology

verify +‎ -ation

Noun

verification (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

• Czech: ověření (cs) n
• French: vérification (fr) f
• German: Verifizierung (de) f
• Hebrew: וידוא (he) (vidú)

• Persian: بررسی (fa) (barresi), درستی سنجی (fa) (dorosti sanji)
• Portuguese: verificação (pt)
• Russian: проверка (ru) (provérka) f, верификация (ru) (verifikácija) f
• Spanish: verificación (es)

the state of being verified

• German: Verifikation (de) f

• Hebrew: וידוא (he) (vidú)

confirmation; authentication

• Hebrew: וידוא (he) (vidú)

legal: confirmation by evidence

math: verification of an equation

• Dutch: verificatie (nl), bewijs (nl)

See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Formal verification