VERIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verification mean? 

• VERIFICATION (noun)
  The noun VERIFICATION has 2 senses:

1. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

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

  Familiarity information: VERIFICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

check; confirmation; substantiation; verification

Context example:

fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory

Hypernyms ("verification" is a kind of...):

cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verification"):

bed check (a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be)

crosscheck (an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources)

odd-even check; parity check; redundancy check (a system of checking for errors in computer functioning)

checksum (a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage)

Derivation:

verify (confirm the truth of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("verification" is a kind of...):

affidavit (written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

verify (attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition))

 Context examples 

Verification will come from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, currently orbiting Mars.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

He ordered much meat to be given, and White Fang, gorged and sleepy by the fire, knew that the law had received its verification.

(White Fang, by Jack London)