verification — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or process of verifying.

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2. The state of being verified.

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3. Confirmation; authentication.

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   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.

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5. The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

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Noun

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

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   confirmationchecksubstantiation

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   proofcogent evidence

   Examples

   fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory

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

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   affidavit