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The act of determining that something is false
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falsification
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Late Latin falsificationem (nominative falsificatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of falsificare "to falsify" (see falsify ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falsification \Fal`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. falsification.] The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not 2 knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation 3 showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: disproof , refutation ] a willful perversion of facts [syn: misrepresentaation ] the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Falsification may refer to: The act of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theory: see Falsifiability Mathematical proof Falsified evidence Falsification of history, distortion of the historical record also known as Historical revisionism (negationism) ...
Usage examples of falsification.
Convicted of record falsification and treasonous delivery of archived system personas to illegal corporations.
They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.
And in the mind of reader or hearer there are further falsifications, because, words not being a direct channel of thought, he constantly sees meanings which are not there.
What might have gladdened and elevated poor suffering and blinded humanity as a wonderful masterpiece of art, like the book of Hiob, or the Iliad, or Prometheus Vinctus, or the Athene of the Parthenon, or the Zeus of Olympus, showing how man in the creations of the artist rises highest above personal pettiness and weakness, how the genius in fiction creates the highest perfection, such as has never been seen in flesh and blood, has now, as an invented historical occurrence, driven the whole world to the rudest falsifications of truth and impossible efforts of imitation.
It will help the Soviet working class to climb out of the thick layer of fog, confusion and political disorientation into which it has been plunged after more than seventy years of lies and historical falsifications under the bureaucratic dictatorship of Stalinism.
There was a falsification of a survey, the grid references were changed .
For anyone who is not a considerable artist (possibly for them too) the lumpishness of words results in constant falsification.
This starship is to be used for the immediate transport of xenologers Marcos Vladimir "Miro" Ribeira von Hesse and Ouanda Qhenhatta Figueira Mucumbi to the nearest world, Trondheim, where they will be tried under Congressional Indictment by Attainder on charges of treason, malfeasance, corruption, falsification, fraud, and xenocide, under the appropriate statutes in Starways Code and Congressional Orders.
There are honestly meant translations that, a involuntary vulgarizations, are almost falsifications of the original merely because its bold and merry tempo (which leaps over an obviates all dangers in things and words) could not be translates A German is almost incapable of presto in his language.
True, he would have to stretch the truth a little in filling out the form, and a little falsification of signature was involved, but his motives were pure, and, thus, his conscience was clear.