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/vˌɛrəfəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Verification n.

The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.

(Law)

(a)

Confirmation by evidence.

(b)

A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.

Verification of an equation (Math.), the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem.

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Etymology of 'Verification'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Verification" Quotes from Famous Books

... cases, as in the Colonies and in some foreign countries. As to the proposal to make eight hours the legal limit of a day's labour in all trades, we have all tried to forecast the consequences of this; and by way of verification we might begin with nine hours; or we might induce some other country to try the experiment first. Still, no verification by experiments on a small scale, or in a mild form, or in somewhat similar yet different circumstances, can be considered logically conclusive. What ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... glanced hard at him again. "Waring!" he repeated, turning over the leaves of his big book for further verification. "Waring! Waring! Waring! Ah, here it is; Waring, Guy; journalist; 22, Staple Inn; 300 shares. Three hundred pounds paid. Then we call up to three thousand. No, Mr. Nevitt didn't settle for you, sir. He paid Mr. ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... wilily insinuates the Tempter, 'that these renowned authors lack knowledge. Their habit of giving an occasional reference (though the verification of these is usually left to the malignancy of a rival and less popular historian) argues at least some reading. No; what is wanting is ignorance, carefully acquired and studiously maintained. This is no paradox. To carry the truisms, theories, laws, language of to-day, along with you in ...

— Obiter Dicta • Augustine Birrell

... one of the points on which he distinctly differed from his father. He took his dramatic subjects wherever he found them, and any historical research which they ultimately involved was undertaken for purposes of verification. 'Sordello' alone may have been conceived on a rather different plan, and I have no authority whatever for admitting that it was so. The discovery of the record of the Franceschini case was, as its author ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... principle applies only to the verification of our expectation in a single fresh instance. But we want also to know that there is a probability in favour of the general law that things of the sort A are always associated with things of the sort B, provided a sufficient number of cases of association are known, and no ...

— The Problems of Philosophy • Bertrand Russell

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