Associations to the word «Provenance»

Wiktionary

PROVENANCE, noun. Place or source of origin.
PROVENANCE, noun. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
PROVENANCE, noun. (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
PROVENANCE, noun. (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
PROVENANCE, noun. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
PROVENANCE, noun. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
PROVENANCE, verb. To establish the provenance of something

Dictionary definition

PROVENANCE, noun. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky