VERIFYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verifying mean? 

• VERIFYING (adjective)
  The adjective VERIFYING has 1 sense:

1. serving to support or corroborate

  Familiarity information: VERIFYING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERIFYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to support or corroborate

Synonyms:

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying

Context example:

collateral evidence

Similar:

supportive (furnishing support or assistance)

 Context examples 

Device problems that result from the failure to maintain or establish techniques for controlling and verifying the product specifications identified by the manufacturer.

(Device Quality Control Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Verifying that the methods used to free a medical device from viable microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses were followed.

(Device Sterility Method Verification Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Verifying that the device packaging met proper sterilization conditions and that the effectiveness of the packaging kept the device free viable microorganisms.

(Device Packaging Verification Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The act of inspecting or verifying.

(Check, NCI Thesaurus)

Verifying this temperature difference was key for vetting Hubble's no-water result, because a uniform atmosphere can also mask the signatures of water molecules.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

For a long time he smoked on in silence, weighing the pictorial wisdom of the white man and verifying it by the facts of life.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Since the discovery of the first planets outside our solar system more than two decades ago, researchers have resorted to a laborious, one-by-one process of verifying suspected planets.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

A card issued by the U.S. Immigration Service verifying that the person has been granted status as a permanent resident of the United States and is eligible to receive a training or career award (Alien Registration Receipt Card I-55).

(Green Card, NCI Thesaurus)