Verification

Origin

verify + -ation

Full definition of verification

Noun

1. The act of verifying.
2. The state of being verified.
3. Confirmation; authentication.The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
4. (legal) 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

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