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Validation

Validation \Val`i*da"tion\, n. [Cf. F. validation.] The act of giving validity. [R.]
--Knowles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
validation

"act of giving validity," 1650s, noun of action from validate.

Wiktionary
validation

n. 1 The act of validate something. 2 Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification. 3 The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions.

WordNet
validation
  1. n. the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something [syn: proof, substantiation]

  2. the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof [syn: establishment]

Wikipedia
Validation

Validation may refer to:

  • Verification and validation, in engineering, confirming that a product or service meets the needs of its users
  • Verification and validation (software), checking that a software system meets specifications and fulfills its intended purpose
  • Validation of foreign studies and degrees, processes for transferring educational credentials between countries
  • Validation (drug manufacture), documenting that a process or system meets its pre-determined specifications and quality attributes
  • Data validation, in computer science, ensuring that data inserted into an application satisfies defined formats and other input criteria
  • Regression model validation, in statistics, determining whether a model fits the data well
  • XML validation, the process of checking a document written in XML to confirm that it both is "well-formed" and follows a defined structure
  • Social validation, compliance in a social activity to fit in and be part of the majority
  • the validation of an analytical test method, to show that it is suitable for the purpose it is used
  • Forecast verification, validating and verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
  • Validation therapy, a therapy developed by Naomi Feil for older people with cognitive impairments and dementia
Validation (drug manufacture)

Validation is a process of establishing documentary evidence demonstrating that a procedure, process, or activity carried out in production or testing maintains the desired level of compliance at all stages. In Pharma Industry it is very important apart from final testing and compliance of product with standard that the process adapted to produce itself must assure that process will consistently produce the expected results. Here the desired results are established in terms of specifications for out come of the process. Qualification of systems and equipment is therefore a part of process of validation. It is a requirement of food and drug, pharmaceutical regulating agencies like FDA's good manufacturing practices guidelines. Since a wide variety of procedures, processes, and activities need to be validated, the field of validation is divided into a number of subsections including the following:

  • Equipment validation
  • Facilities validation
  • HVAC system validation
  • Cleaning validation
  • Process Validation
  • Analytical method validation
  • Computer system validation
  • Packaging validation
  • Cold chain validation

Similarly, the activity of qualifying systems and equipment is divided into a number of subsections including the following:

  • Design qualification (DQ)
  • Component qualification (CQ)
  • Installation qualification (IQ)
  • Operational qualification (OQ)
  • Performance qualification (PQ)

Usage examples of "validation".

His life now was the cave and the dreaming, nothing else, and his quest now seemed prideful and vain, the boasting of a dreamless Dreamer seeking some personal validation.

For instance, in the view of some critics, literary realism carries with it an implicit validation of conservative social structures: for others, the formal and metrical intricacies of the sonnet and the iambic pentameter are a counterpart of social stability, decorum, and order.

Most philosophers took the existence of ethics for granted, as the given, as a historical fact, and were not concerned with discovering its metaphysical cause or objective validation.

In the Constitutional Law which the validation of the Roosevelt program has brought into full being, the two main structural elements of government in the United States in the past, the principle of Dual Federalism and the doctrine of the Separation of Powers, have undergone a radical and enfeebling transformation which war has, naturally, carried still further.

The size and number of the trophies conferred validation, and publicity was all that separated martial artists from ordinary thugs.

The various branches of modern science have developed on the model of physics, and scientific materialists have traditionally looked to physics for validation of their beliefs.

For the purpose of explaining the cumulative process, I have arranged the validation of special consensus according to the sequence in which the states of nonordinary reality and special ordinary reality occurred.

The rule was corroborated in non-ordinary reality The rule was also corroborated in non-ordinary reality, and the corroboration was carried out in the same pragmatic, experimental manner of validation as would have been employed in situations of ordinary reality.

Harry Dunne had insisted that Bryson use a new legend specially created for him by the wizards of the CIA's technical services division, graphic arts reproduction branch master forgers who specialized in what was euphemistically called "authentication and validation.

It's partly a black humor critique of the contemporary work place, partly a novel of cosmic horror, partly a fascinating character study wherein we see either the validation of Kenan's fears, or his descent into a complete mental breakdown.

Otterson, Madison, WI, for her ongoing support, and especially for that early and crucial validation of Kate Delafield which enabled me to see Kate’s value and significance.

The second was to go to the local union office and register a contract with Boyce Cochenour for validation, with a commission clause for Vastra.

Keith tells me you've been well and thoroughly taught, but your education was flawed by over-correction and lack of validation.

To determine the finite level of those two positives would require the East Coast lab’s validation.

Nonetheless, the comparison of these two quotations is useful not only as a validation of Dick's knowing use of religious source material but also as a fair warning to all those who would paste a doctrinal label of any sort on Dick's work.