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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

... only the verification of my own guesses. Its facts were quickly supplanted in my thoughts by the disastrous picture he had drawn of the state of the hospital. I was confounded and shocked by the magnitude of this evil. The cause of it was obvious. The wretches whom ...

— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

... had not been able to get the President by 'phone at the White House but learned that he was somewhere in the naval barracks, had decided to look him up. Scarcely had he entered his car, before he was surrounded by hundreds of people clamoring for verification of the news from Buenos Ayres. He declared again and again that he knew nothing more than what he had just read in the extras, but no one believed him. Several policemen cleared the way in front of the puffing machine, which at last managed to get clear of ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... of starvation, and by gently administering food, we so tamed him that we were able to examine him for a further verification of my suspicions. Had my companions before entertained any doubts as to the truth of my story, all such vanished when they discovered that, though the wound had perfectly closed where I had cut out the steak, the cicatrice was there, and skin perfectly denuded of hair. ...

— Marmaduke Merry - A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days • William H. G. Kingston

... time as we should be ready to put them in for discount. Of course, the success or failure of our whole plan turned upon this point. Is it the custom of the Bank of England (in 1873) to send acceptances offered for discount to the acceptors for verification of signatures? ...

— Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude • Austin Biron Bidwell

... that information, which has since received the fullest verification, I addressed to him my note of the 6th. His reply, dated the same day, received the next morning, was absolutely and notoriously false, both in recrimination and explanation. I enclose copies of both papers, and have had no subsequent ...

— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

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