verification

See also: vérification

English

Etymology

From Middle French verification (modern French vérification) or its etymon Medieval Latin vērificātiō. By surface analysis, verificate +‎ -ion.

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), заве́рка (bg) f (zavérka)
• 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)

Further reading

• formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• verification and validation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia