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Verification

Verification \Ver`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v['e]rification.]

  1. The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.

  2. (Law)

    1. Confirmation by evidence.

    2. A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.

      Verification of an equation (Math.), the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem.
      --Davies & Peck. (Math. Dict.)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verification

1520s, from Medieval Latin *verificationem (nominative verificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of verificare (see verify). Middle English had verifiaunce "confirmation, corroboration" (c.1400).

Wiktionary
verification

n. 1 The act of verifying. 2 The state of being verified. 3 confirmation; authentication. 4 (context legal English) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence. 5 (context mathematics English) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

WordNet
verification
  1. n. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory" [syn: confirmation, check, substantiation]

  2. (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement

Wikipedia
Verification

Verify or verification may refer to:

  • Verification and validation, in engineering or quality management systems, it is the act of reviewing, inspecting or testing, in order to establish and document that a product, service or system meets regulatory or technical standards.
  • Verification (spaceflight), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
  • Verification theory, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
  • Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
  • Authentication
  • Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
Verification (spaceflight)

Verification in the field of space systems engineering covers two verification processes: Qualification and Acceptance

Verification (audit)

Verification means 'Proving the truth' or ' Confirmation'. Verification is an auditing process in which auditor satisfy himself with the actual existence of assets and liabilities appearing in the Statement of Financial position. Verification is usually conducted through examination of existence, ownership, title, possession, proper valuation and presence of any charge of lien over assets.

Thus, verification includes verifying:

  1. The existence of the assets
  2. Legal ownership and possession of the assets
  3. Correct valuation, and
  4. Ascertaining that the asset is free from any charge

Usage examples of "verification".

The order of the day is the verification of the powers and the admission of the deputy elected by the arrondissement of Arcis-sur-Aube.

France, to clap you for a longish moment in the waiting-room, idea of cooling your heels a little, for Verification of Identity.

She could at least snuggle behind him, on tiptoe kiss his ear and plunge her nether tongue into him for verification of his health and replenishment of essential consumables.

All the guards had to do was run random second-level verification scans on personnel and check visitor vehicles.

EYES There is nothing described with so little attention, with such slovenliness, or so without verification - albeit with so much confidence and word-painting - as the eyes of the men and women whose faces have been made memorable by their works.

Furthermore, such requests must be verified as authentic in accordance with the Verification and Authorization Procedures.

Therefore, all such requests must be positively verified using the Verification and Authorization Procedures.

Verification of faxed authorizations Policy: Prior to carrying out any instructions received by facsimile, the sender must be verified as an employee or other Trusted Person.

Employee verification procedure Policy: The company should establish comprehensive procedures to be used by employees for verifying the identity, employment status, and authorization of an individual before releasing Confidential or Sensitive information or performing any task that involves use of any computer hardware or software.

One of the proofs that they give for this theory is that through the attentive study and verification of the science of geology it has become clear that the existence of the vegetable preceded that of the animal, and that of the animal preceded that of man.

Not only were the bracing bars designed to calculated stresses, and the continuity of the girders taken into account, but the validity of the calculations was tested by a verification on the actual bridge of the position of the points of contrary flexure of the centre span.

Certainly, there is no way to establish that any theory describes our world without subjecting its predictions to experimental verification.

To this he flew at a hint of a contrary method, and disputes, verifications and triumphs on one side and the other ensued between brother and sister.

As it turns out, the observations of binary pulsars give a precise verification of the predictions of General Relativity, and for this Taylor and Hulse were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Anticipating the possibility of being cut off, Greene had provided Brohier with a short list of aliases, a code phrase, a verification key, and a short primer on sending anonymous mail.